An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats
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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent
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At age 50, every man has the face he deserves
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power
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Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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Power is not a means, it is an end.
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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The object of persecution is persecution
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The object of torture is torture.
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The object of power is power
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War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
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