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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is n...more

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected...more

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What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your m...more

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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwis...more

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Wins...more

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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and ...more

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TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason. Try again.’ ‘To punish them.’ ‘No!’ e...more

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Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its shar...more

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For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horribl...more

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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.