George Orwell citations

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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La Ferme des animaux, 1945

La Ferme des animaux, 1945

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Les Sept Commandements (originaux)
Livre La Ferme des animaux, George Orwell, Gallimard, 1984, 30, 2, 2-07-037516-1, Jean Queval, 1945, Folio, fr
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Original: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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La Ferme des animaux, 1945

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
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Partie du discours de Sage l'Ancien
La Ferme des animaux, 1945

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Such, Such Were the Joys

Such, Such Were the Joys

La Ferme des animaux, 1945

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. 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.
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L'immunité artistique, quelques notes sur Salvador Dali, 1944

The old life's finished, and to go about looking for it is just waste of time. [...] You can't put Jonah back into the whale.
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Un peu d'air frais, 1939

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Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 33
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: 1984

Source: Animal Farm

Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: 1984

Source: Politics and the English Language (1946)

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: Animal Farm

According to Reuters Fact Check team there is no evidence of the quotation in collections of Orwell’s works. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-orwell-quote-corrupt-idUSKCN2AT2W5

Source: 1984

Notes on Nationalism (1945)

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Animal Farm

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: "Why I Write" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/write.html, Gangrel (Summer 1946)
Contexte: Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
It is not easy. It raises problems of construction and of language, and it raises in a new way the problem of truthfulness.

Source: Animal Farm

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Source: 1984

Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
Source: The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

Source: Animal Farm

Variante: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Source: 1984