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The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.


George Bataille

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GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL