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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on ...more

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A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sen...more

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The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and...more

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A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be tr...more

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

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But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...more

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To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exis...more