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The fact that the beating had not hurt was a sort of victory and partially wiped out the shame of the bed-wetting. I was even incautious enough to wear a grin on my face.
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Night after night I prayed, with a fervour never previously attained in my prayers, ‘‘Please God, do not let me wet my bed! Oh, please God, do not let me wet my bed!”
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure—above all, it means loneliness.
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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as “robust."
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Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
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The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously-—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.
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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.