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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.


George Orwell

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GEORGE ORWELL Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
GEORGE ORWELL As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
GEORGE ORWELL We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be...
GEORGE ORWELL Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improve...
GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which i...
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELL All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELL Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t...
GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...
GEORGE ORWELL For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story...
GEORGE ORWELL She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
GEORGE ORWELL The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
GEORGE ORWELL Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.
GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b...
GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte...
GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...
GEORGE ORWELL