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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Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.
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No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child’s point of view.
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The main motive for “non-attachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
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