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• The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Animal, Wings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.

  George Orwell

  Fall, Home, Russia

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Believe, Hard Work

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

  George Orwell

  Action, Moved

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Fun, World Suffering, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

  George Orwell

  Block, Men, Stones

  Coming Up for Air pt. 1, ch. 3 (1939) See Cyril Connolly 3

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

  George Orwell

  Real, Practice, Warfare

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Envy, Suffering, Tragedy

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

  George Orwell

  Cost, London, Facts

  George Orwell (1972). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

  George Orwell

  Cures, Sane, Knows

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• It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

  George Orwell

  Cat, Done, Found

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Heart, Looks

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• Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

  George Orwell

  Civilization, Clothes, Gestures

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

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• The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

  George Orwell

  Art, Book, Literature

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

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• The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

  George Orwell

  Party, Fighting, Warrior

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

  George Orwell

  Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

  George Orwell

  Acceptance

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• Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Together, Indestructible

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.55, Dramatic Publishing

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• Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

  George Orwell

  "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Essentials

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

  George Orwell

  Pigs, Needs, Being There

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• A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

  George Orwell

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "1984".

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• The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

  George Orwell

  Past, Agreement, Evil

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

  George Orwell

  1984 Important, Neurologists, Abolish

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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