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Quotes by George Orwell
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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