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Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to...more

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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

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Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact ...more

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If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

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What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will ...more

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Sharply the menacing wind sweeps overThe bending poplars, newly bare,And the dark ribbons of the chimneysVeer downward; flicked by whips of air.Torn p...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

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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.

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It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, whil...more

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[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.