George Orwell

(688 votes)   The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(259 votes)   For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(234 votes)   Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(228 votes)   Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(139 votes)   A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(138 votes)   In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(127 votes)   The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously --is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(121 votes)   The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

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(118 votes)   To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(108 votes)   Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.

George Orwell

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(82 votes)   One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(77 votes)   The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

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1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(65 votes)   The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(57 votes)   During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell
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(49 votes)   But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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