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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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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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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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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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I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four le...more

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The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly the...more

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

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At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

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The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.