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This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

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Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs no...

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A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next r...

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George OrwellAs I Please: 1943-1945

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, ...

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George OrwellFacing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ...

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We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the H...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, ban...

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever ho...

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