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George Orwell Quotes

George Orwell quotes about feeling

British Author, Writer June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950

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The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point. George Orwell
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. George Orwell
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure,..."
A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks. George Orwell
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. George Orwell
You always, I notice, feel the same when you are under heavy fire - not so much afraid of being hit as afraid because you don't know where you will be hit. You are wondering all the while just where the bullet will nip you, and it gives your whole body a most unpleasant sensitiveness. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the..."
He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be..."
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when..."
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an..."
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary"
One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary George Orwell

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