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Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
– George Orwell

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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
– George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
– George Orwell

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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

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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
– George Orwell

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
– George Orwell

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
– George Orwell

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
– George Orwell

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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
– George Orwell

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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
– George Orwell

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
– George Orwell

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
– George Orwell

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
– George Orwell

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Football is war minus the shooting.
– George Orwell

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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
– George Orwell

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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
– George Orwell

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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
– George Orwell

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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

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
– George Orwell

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
– George Orwell, 1984

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