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George Orwell

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In the face of pain there are no heroes.


— George Orwell


#heroes

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.


— George Orwell


#freedom

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.


— George Orwell


#insanity

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.


— George Orwell


#socialism

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.


— George Orwell


#totalitarianism

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.


— George Orwell


#dreams

In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help.


— George Orwell


#love

Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:   WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.


— George Orwell


#freedom

I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia


— George Orwell


#love

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.


— George Orwell


#beauty






About George Orwell

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Did you know about George Orwell?

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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