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During times of universal deceit, telling the
truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do
not want to hear.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing
if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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The essence of being human is that one does not
seek perfection.
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He who controls the present, controls the past.
He who controls the past, controls the future.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human
being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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 accept civilization as it is practically
means accepting decay.