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“At night all cats are grey.”

George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”

“You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”

Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work”

George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Context: 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. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.