“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
