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George Orwell Quotes

George Orwell quotes about life

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

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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. George Orwell
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
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. George Orwell
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. George Orwell
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: " . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in..."
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future."
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or..."
Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer..."
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "(...)inequality was theunalterable law of human life."
(...)inequality was theunalterable law of human life. George Orwell
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. George Orwell
The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. George Orwell
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had..."
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly..."
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell

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