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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 3, ch. 3

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 7

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The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention

… It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant … the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons.

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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 5

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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 1

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 1

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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 ‘England Your England’; see Wellington 354:8

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 1

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Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings … these are not only fragments, but characteristic fragments, of the English scene.

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 ‘England Your England’; see Major 225:19

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Eric Arthur Blair, known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was born in Motihari, British India. He studied at Eton College and, after completing his studies, enlisted in the Indian Imperial Police, serving in Burma. This experience, as well as his life as a worker in Paris and Barcelona, profoundly influenced his views on imperialism and oppression. During the Spanish Civil War, he fought alongside the Republic against Franco's forces, where he was wounded. This experience contributed to his aversion to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. His novels "Animal Farm" (1945) and "1984" (1949) are political allegories that criticize Stalinism and the dangers of totalitarianism, respectively. "1984", in particular, with its concept of "Big Brother" and "Newspeak", became a landmark in dystopian fiction and influenced popular culture and political thought. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, addressing themes such as literature, politics, and language in works such as "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Politics and the English Language". He died in London, victim of tuberculosis, in 1950.