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“the conditions of life in all three superstates are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.”
― 1984
― 1984
“For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
― Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
― Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
“What is Big Government but the Executive’s cocaine dream, an activity devoted solely to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it toward those people who will support his continued incumbency--it is within the law. Its street name is ‘earmarks,’ but it is theft.”
― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
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