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Letter "G" » George Orwell Quotes
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«(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
doublethink, draw, draw back, inconvenient, just so, needed, oblivion
«Myths which are believed in tend to become true.»
«On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time»
«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.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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age of, Age of Reason, calamity, endlessly, For some, fussed, fussing, grotesques, growing, importance, joyless, mysterious, obscene, passed, real life, so far, staying, The Age, thirty, without reasoning
«All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.»
«So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hot, left wing, playing, Playing with Fire, wing
«Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aspire, felt, genuinely, human beings, probable, sainthood, saints, temptation
«To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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actual, cities, civilization, continuity, Germany, ruined
«People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.»
«In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.»
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