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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."
"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."
"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
Explore more quotes by George Orwell
"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."
"It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain."
"For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."
"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
"In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money."
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
"What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another."
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