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Thing Quotes by George Orwell
- The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
- But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
- 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…
- You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
- I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as…
- A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
- A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
- The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which…
- It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of…
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less…
- It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one…
- You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing…
- It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with…
- What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
- If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
- Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face…
- Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should…
- So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
- It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
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