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• The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Ends

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.121, Arcturus Publishing

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• He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Skins, Ankles

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You were the dead; theirs was the future.

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.169, Arcturus Publishing

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• Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

  George Orwell

  Book, Order, Weavers

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

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• Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

  George Orwell

  Facts, Language, Said

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

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  Groups, Scarcity, Hardship

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

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  Pain, Hatred, Sorrow

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

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  Song, Military, Lectures

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

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• Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

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  Men, Long, Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

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  Heart, Differences, Feelings

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• It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

  George Orwell

  Beautiful, Why Not, Body

  George Orwell (1982). “Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism”, Harcourt

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• Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

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  People, Matter, Way

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Wall, Moving

  1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.1.

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• The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Frivolous

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Years, Work Out, Secret

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

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• There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

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  Loss, Differences, Profound

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1999). “A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

  George Orwell

  War, Eye, Beer

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• Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

  George Orwell

  Doctrine, Instance, Persons

  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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• One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

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  Life And Death, Alive, Want

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have no wish to take life, not even human life

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  Wish, Human Life, Humans

  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.32, Penguin UK

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• Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

  George Orwell

  Foals, Motherly, Figures

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

  George Orwell

  Power, Bombs, Faces

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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• On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

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  Wall, Years, Dating

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

  George Orwell

  Political, Revolution, Needs

  'Inside the Whale' (1940) 'Charles Dickens'

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• Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

  George Orwell

  Football, Hurt, Games

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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