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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

  George Orwell

  Attitude, Book, Mind

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Doe, Like You

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• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Party, Reality

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.189, Arcturus Publishing

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• We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

  George Orwell

  Darkness, Nineteen, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Party, Doe

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Propaganda

  1942 Diary entry,14 Mar.

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• I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  People, Defeat, Communism

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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• The more intelligent, the less sane

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Sane, Ignorance In 1984

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

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• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

  George Orwell

  Real, War, Practice

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  People, Ordinary, Behaviour

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Mean, People

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

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• I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.96, Oberon Books

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• If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

  George Orwell

  Love You, Men, Care

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

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• Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

  George Orwell

  Writing, People, Frightened

  "Essays".

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• 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 all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

  George Orwell

  Romantic, Hair, Smell

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Europe, Political, United States

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

  George Orwell

  Past, Achievement, Principles

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

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

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• If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

  George Orwell

  Love, Marriage, Giving

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Insanity, Nineteen

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.165, Arcturus Publishing

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• Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Liberty, Literature

  1946 'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic, Jan.

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• Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

  George Orwell

  Country, Civilization, Tea Drinking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• All art is propaganda.

  George Orwell

  Art, Propaganda, Art Is

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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