George Orwell Quotes About Life
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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 long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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