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• Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Book, Thinking

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• If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

  George Orwell

  Lying, There Is Hope, 1984 Movie

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.23, Oberon Books

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• Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

  George Orwell

  War, Winning, Power

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

  George Orwell

  Fate, Jokes, Series

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Never use a long word where a short one will do.

  George Orwell

  Long, Use, Simile

  George Orwell (1961). “Collected essays”

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

  George Orwell

  Failure, Winning, Games

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945)

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• To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Integrity, Lying

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

  George Orwell

  Brother, Struggle, Taken

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

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• All art is propaganda.

  George Orwell

  Art, Propaganda, Art Is

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Suffering

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

  George Orwell

  Love, Marriage, Giving

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

  George Orwell

  Darkness, Nineteen, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Effort, Leaving

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

  George Orwell

  Attitude, Book, Mind

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  People, Ordinary, Behaviour

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

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  Love You, Men, Care

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

  George Orwell

  Romantic, Hair, Smell

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

  George Orwell

  War, Nineteen, Position

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.144, Arcturus Publishing

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• Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

  George Orwell

  War, Struggle, Heart

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Cracks, Circus

  "The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945".

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• I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  People, Defeat, Communism

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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