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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”

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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

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“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”

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“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

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“"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”

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“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

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“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”

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“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it”

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“"War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength”

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