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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it.
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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.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
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War is Peace
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
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The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
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An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
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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.
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Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
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What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter.
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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