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"A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?"
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"The instrument through which time is converted is called work."
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"To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity."
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"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."
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"I don't want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love."
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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."
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"Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness. Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations. Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."
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"The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life."
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"Lessons are learned through making mistakes, falling and rising."
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"Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven."
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"We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding."
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"Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness."
Strength
"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
Memory
"What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk."
Imagination
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Truth
"And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices."
Morality
"And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police. So would anybody else for that matter: but Syme more than most. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness."
Politics
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
Writing
"I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan."
Perspective
"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
"We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them."
Change
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