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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot ru...more

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A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

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Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clea...more

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For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'na...more

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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about t...more

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That is her style of beauty.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.