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.
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Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, “I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
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It [modern writing at its worst] consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.
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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
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There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.
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All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude—and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.
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