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- The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the…
- Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
- A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
- Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and…
- England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,…
- There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there…
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it…
- Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
- 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 truth.…
- He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
- He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into…
- If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but…
- The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to…
- There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude…
- The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air…
- A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
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