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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on ...more

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A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sen...more

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Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

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The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and...more

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A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be tr...more

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

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

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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even agains...more