The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George OrwellTo mark the paper was the decisive act.
George OrwellI had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
George OrwellHe found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.
George OrwellThe enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
George OrwellWhat now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.
George OrwellBut what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of the world has ceased to believe that your motives can possibly be honest.
George OrwellMoreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries
George OrwellMots clés pacifism
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In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result, ‘enlightened’ opinion is quite largely a mirror-image of Conservative policy. Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next.
George OrwellMots clés pacifism anti-westernism
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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