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• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Party, Russia

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

  George Orwell

  Hands, Long, Together

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

  George Orwell

  Years, Knowing, Together

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

  George Orwell

  Revolution

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Writing a novel is agony.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Agony, Novel

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• It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

  George Orwell

  Men, Brain

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.45, Arcturus Publishing

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• Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Talking, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Nuts, Tree

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

  George Orwell

  Mother, Children, England

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

  George Orwell

  Literary Merit, Survival, Majority

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

  George Orwell

  War, Winning, Differences

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, Remember

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Agony, Mind

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the mute protest in your own bones

  George Orwell

  Bones, Mute, Protest

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing

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• The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

  George Orwell

  Coming Back, Mystical, Absurdity

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

  George Orwell

  Said Life, Gone, Goes On

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

  George Orwell

  Waiter, Has Beens

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• What happens to you here is forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Happens

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.551, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

  George Orwell

  Distance, Cat, Animal

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• [...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

  George Orwell

  World, Want, This World

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, World, Impossible

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• Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

  George Orwell

  War, Battle, Eton

  The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7

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• You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

  George Orwell

  Answers, World, Rooms

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

  George Orwell

  Art, World, Futuristic

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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