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Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.
Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.