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George Orwell Quotes
«The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ? that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.»
«One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.»
«Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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«It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, prose, readable, struggles, windowpane, windowpanes
«Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.»
«Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.»
«As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only doing their duty, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.»
«A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him»