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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.