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George Orwell

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Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?


— George Orwell


#age

The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".


— George Orwell


#o-brien #the-party #art

That is her style of beauty.


— George Orwell


#inspirational #beauty

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.


— George Orwell


#depth #duty #first #intelligent #men

La libertad es poder decir libremente que dos y dos son cuatro. Si se concede esto, todo lo demás vendrá por sus pasos contados.


— George Orwell


#freedom

I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have


— George Orwell


#world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.


— George Orwell


#war #beauty

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.


— George Orwell


#age #eight #expose #feelings #instinctive

...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.


— George Orwell


#george-orwell #life

I have not betrayed Julia.


— George Orwell


#love #lovers #love






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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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