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• the mute protest in your own bones

  George Orwell

  Bones, Mute, Protest

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

  George Orwell

  Real, Practice, Warfare

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

  George Orwell

  Cures, Sane, Knows

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• I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

  George Orwell

  Cost, London, Facts

  George Orwell (1972). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Envy, Suffering, Tragedy

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

  George Orwell

  Cat, Done, Found

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

  George Orwell

  Art, Book, Literature

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

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• Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

  George Orwell

  Civilization, Clothes, Gestures

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

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• it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Heart, Looks

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• The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

  George Orwell

  Party, Fighting, Warrior

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

  George Orwell

  Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

  George Orwell

  Acceptance

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• Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Together, Indestructible

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.55, Dramatic Publishing

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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Essentials

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

  George Orwell

  "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

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• A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

  George Orwell

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "1984".

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• The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

  George Orwell

  Past, Agreement, Evil

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

  George Orwell

  1984 Important, Neurologists, Abolish

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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• ...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

  George Orwell

  War, Survival, Consciousness

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Age, Peculiar

  "Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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• The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Independent

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• Weakness is strength.

  George Orwell

  Bible, Weakness

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• Reality is inside the skull.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Skulls

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Ghost

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

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