Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason
GEORGE SAND When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually...
STEVEN WRIGHT When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually...
STEPHEN WRIGHT If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand a...
DANIEL BONN You have to introduce water into the sand. And the easiest way to do that is to make it trickle alon...
DANIEL BONN The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand
DEAN CAVANAGH If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
LEO TOLSTOY That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America,
who commanded the sun and the moon ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all
is vanity.
BIBLE Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy p...
ESTHER DALSENO I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French...
JULIETTE BINOCHE Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
BIBLE If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing hea...
MUNIA KHAN The grain does move on you. It is like quicksand,
KEN COX Sartre smoked. Colette, George Sand, Marguerite Duras, [André] Gide -- they all smoked, ... We have...
JEAN CLAUDE He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyran...
THOMAS PAINE It is not possible for me to explain just how wonderful it is to see this house that George Exxon Bu...
BOBBY W. MILLER There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Often the status quo of man is mired in the quicksand of doubt, arrogance, disobedience, and habit.
JAIME CONTRERAS Assumptions can subsist on a foundation of quicksand.
STEVEN REDHEAD Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, lik...
LEMONY SNICKET I worship the quicksand he walks in.
ART BUCHWALD I worship the quicksand he walks in.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT We looked like we were in quicksand.
TIM O'TOOLE It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is
kept is "lighter than vanity."
JOHN BUNYAN What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAM The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Without death life is vanity & without life death is vanity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON George Steinbrenner has that policy for a reason, and you have to respect that.
JOHNNY DAMON Vanity is the beginning of false leadership.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Vanity is the polite mask of pride.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. ...
LAURA MENNELL Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion ...
GEORGE SAND He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ...
GEORGE SAND Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
GEORGE SAND One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
GEORGE SAND Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
GEORGE SAND Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is ...
GEORGE SAND The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
GEORGE SAND No religion can be built on force.
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...
GEORGE SAND If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status ...
GEORGE SAND Where love is absent, there can be no woman.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the n...
GEORGE SAND Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...
GEORGE SAND We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this w...
GEORGE SAND I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more tr...
GEORGE SAND It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous ...
GEORGE SAND Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
GEORGE SAND Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to los...
GEORGE SAND One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink ...
GEORGE SAND Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
GEORGE SAND Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
GEORGE SAND The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is...
GEORGE SAND No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes wit...
GEORGE SAND One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
GEORGE SAND Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience a...
GEORGE SAND We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
GEORGE SAND Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
GEORGE SAND No human creature can give orders to love.
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
GEORGE SAND The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...
GEORGE SAND The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
GEORGE SAND Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. ...
GEORGE SAND It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one gr...
GEORGE SAND Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.
GEORGE SAND Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
GEORGE SAND Some pursue happiness - others create it.
GEORGE SAND We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire
GEORGE SAND One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness...
GEORGE SAND Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
GEORGE SAND One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree ...
GEORGE SAND Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...
GEORGE SAND J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et pre...
GEORGE SAND When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort...
GEORGE SAND Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all th...
GEORGE SAND The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
GEORGE SAND Every historian discloses a new horizon
GEORGE SAND Admiration and familiarity are strangers
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GEORGE SAND I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
GEORGE SAND Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
GEORGE SAND Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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GEORGE SAND Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...
GEORGE SAND We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this w...
GEORGE SAND I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more tr...
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GEORGE SAND Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
GEORGE SAND Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to los...
GEORGE SAND One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink ...
GEORGE SAND Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
GEORGE SAND Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
GEORGE SAND The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is...
GEORGE SAND No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes wit...
GEORGE SAND One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
GEORGE SAND Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience a...
GEORGE SAND We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
GEORGE SAND Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
GEORGE SAND No human creature can give orders to love.
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
GEORGE SAND The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...
GEORGE SAND The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
GEORGE SAND Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. ...
GEORGE SAND It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one gr...
GEORGE SAND Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.
GEORGE SAND Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
GEORGE SAND Some pursue happiness - others create it.
GEORGE SAND We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire
GEORGE SAND One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness...
GEORGE SAND Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
GEORGE SAND One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree ...
GEORGE SAND Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...
GEORGE SAND J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et pre...
GEORGE SAND When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort...
GEORGE SAND Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all th...
GEORGE SAND The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
GEORGE SAND Every historian discloses a new horizon
GEORGE SAND Admiration and familiarity are strangers
GEORGE SAND One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness ...
GEORGE SAND You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to yo...
GEORGE SAND Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
GEORGE SAND One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness:...
GEORGE SAND [On Chopin's Preludes:]
"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of natur...
GEORGE SAND Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont pl...
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GEORGE SAND We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,
LEONARD SAND is really irrelevant.
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GREG SAND It's a whole different ballgame now. We are not in disarray. Our athletes are stepping up and they'r...
GREG SAND In my mind, Tim's still the head coach. It's been his team for the last three years. This is still h...
GREG SAND There's a misconception out there about this team. Some people back home might think that after all ...
GREG SAND We've got to cross our fingers and pray and hope that happens.
GREG SAND We'll do our best. We'll have a team meeting and just say that we are there and they should be there...
GREG SAND Zach Lund is one of the most talented pilots on tour right now, no question. That's why he's success...
GREG SAND I try to put myself in the position of a juror,
LEONARD SAND This court is not a vehicle for public declarations,
LEONARD SAND If you are going to fight the Iraqi war before this jury, I am not going to stop you,
LEONARD SAND As I read the indictment, ... I really wonder whether this is not the time for the government to sim...
LEONARD SAND The process by which the death penalty is decided is one that most people are not familiar with,
LEONARD SAND The consequences of inadvertent disclosure in this case are real and grave not only in terms of pote...
LEONARD SAND It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice...
LEONARD SAND There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicte...
LEONARD SAND I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,
LEONARD SAND When you lose, let that be a lesson to you.
When you win - you don't learn anything.
ALLAN P. SAND A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses
and does not thrill; an utterance wh...
GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a
pipe, whose fragments are thrown ...
GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
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GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
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GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
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GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL