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• The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

  George Orwell

  Smart, Book, Men

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

  George Orwell

  Window Panes, World, Cold

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more men you've had, the more I love you.

  George Orwell

  Love You, Men

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.222, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

  George Orwell

  Love, Romantic, Giving

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.190, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, New Day, Teeth

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Sanity

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• 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 be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  Paris, People, Mad

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

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• 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 out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Past, History

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• 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 bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

  George Orwell

  Brother, Sex, Cheer

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

  George Orwell

  Clarity, Trouble, Imitation

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

  George Orwell

  Sanity, Submission

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Trust, Eight

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

  George Orwell

  Sweat, Sound, Pay

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• 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 the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

  George Orwell

  Flames, People, Desire

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

  George Orwell

  Cogs, Machines, Capitalist

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

  George Orwell

  Education, Punishment, Doubt

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• Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

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  Mistake, Hands, People

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

  George Orwell

  Community, Nonsense, Individual

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

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• Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

  George Orwell

  Imperialism, Kipling

  "All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays".

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

  George Orwell

  Saint, Tests, Guilty

  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 four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Historical

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• He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

  George Orwell

  Childhood, Saint, World

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Paris

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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