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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and...more

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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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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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

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Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every...more

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And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had...more

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If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been rename...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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Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words...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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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept d...more