“It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
