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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."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
Creativity
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever."
Society
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Animals
"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name."
Psychology
"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
Life
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in."
Spiritual
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Politics
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
Suffering
"We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing."
Future
"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself."
Behavior
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