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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. - Author object (272)

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. - Author object (272)

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. - Author object (272)

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Author object (325)

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - Author object (325)

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - Author object (325)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - Author object (325)

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. - Author object (325)

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - Author object (325)

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - Author object (325)

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - Author object (325)

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - Author object (325)

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. - Author object (325)

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - Author object (325)

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - Author object (325)

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - Author object (325)

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - Author object (325)

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. - Author object (325)

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - Author object (325)

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. - Author object (325)