Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George OrwellPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellTag: politics-language
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
George OrwellTag: enemies
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
George OrwellTag: future
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
George OrwellTag: writing
He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He pined for a bit of amusement - something cheap and easy. A seat in the pictures, cigarettes, beer. Useless! No money to pay for any of them. He would read KING LEAR and forget this filthy century. Finally, however, it was THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES that he took from the mantelpiece. SHERLOCK HOLMES was his favorite of all books, because he knew it by heart. The oil in the lamp was giving out and it was getting beastly cold. Gordon dragged the quilt from his bed, wrapped it round his legs and sat down to read. His right elbow on the table, his hands under his coat to keep them warm, he read through "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." The little gas-mantle sighed above, the circular flame of the oil-lamp burned low, a thin bracket of fire, giving out no more heat than a candle.
George OrwellThe Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
George OrwellTag: first-sentence
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George OrwellTag: truth
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
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