1,535 Quotes by George Orwell


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    Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

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    Day is over, night has come. today is gone, what's done is done. embrace your dreams, through the night, tomorrow comes with a whole new light.

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    According to Buddhist belief, those who have done evil in their lives will spend the next incarntation in the shape of a rat, a frog or some other low animal.

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    The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

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    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever.

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    Every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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    We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.

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    The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people-people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent.

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