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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

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  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

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  Safe, Emotion, Life Is

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• Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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  Mean, Thinking, Orthodoxy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

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  Stupidity, Difficult

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

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  Party, Reality, Views

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• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

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  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

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  Issues, Discipline, Intellectual

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

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  Tombs, Hospitals

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• He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

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  Brother, Struggle, Taken

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

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• you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

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  Life, Regret, Decision

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

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  Insanity, Minorities, Lunatic

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

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  Agreement, Orthodoxy, Facts

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• Never use a long word where a short one will do.

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  Long, Use, Simile

  George Orwell (1961). “Collected essays”

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• In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

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  Failure, Winning, Games

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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  Lying, Men, Giving

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

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  Fate, Jokes, Series

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

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  Military, War, Suffering

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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  Men, Animal, Interest

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

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  Lying, There Is Hope, 1984 Movie

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.23, Oberon Books

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• All human relationships must be purchased with money.

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  Humans, Human Relations, Human Relationships

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• No one is patriotic about taxes.

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  Patriotic, Patriotism, Taxes

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

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  Long, Donkey, Long Time

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

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  Consequence

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

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  Writing, Effort, Leaving

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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