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| Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise | | Balance; Youth | |
| Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. | | Uncategorized | |
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| No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. | | Uncategorized | |
| No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards | | Adulthood | |
| Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria | | Uncategorized | |
| Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia | | Uncategorized | |
| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time | | Uncategorized | |
| One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. | | Uncategorized | |
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| One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism | | Patriotism | |
| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. | | People; Violence | |
| Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. | | Insanity | |
| Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. | | Uncategorized | |
| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. | | Appearance; Politicians | |
