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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

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What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will ...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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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.

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

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

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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

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Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact ...more