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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a new religion.
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There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
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George Orwell |
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
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George Orwell |
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Ellis was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
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George Orwell |
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He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.
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George Orwell |
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When you have no money your life is one long series of snubs.
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No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.
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Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
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George Orwell |
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Why is it that one can't borrow from a rich friend and can from a half-starved relative?
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George Orwell |
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One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.
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George Orwell |
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I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
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George Orwell |
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Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
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George Orwell |
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Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.
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George Orwell |
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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George Orwell |
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The outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing is the unnecessary detail.
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George Orwell |
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There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
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George Orwell |
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The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goring's bombing planes.
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George Orwell |
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Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
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George Orwell |
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But it takes a war to make map-reading popular.
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George Orwell |
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E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism.
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George Orwell |
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Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.
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George Orwell |
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Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.
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