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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ↗

— George Orwell

#never #people #possess #responsibility #seldom

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. ↗

— George Orwell

#been #eurasia #had #therefore #war

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #class #hatred #internationalism #stronger

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#fight #necessary #often #survive #to survive

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

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Good writing is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ↗

— George Orwell

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