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Famous George Orwell Quotes
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
“Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.”
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
“Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.”
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”
“Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”