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" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "

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" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

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" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

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" Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. "

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" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

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" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "

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" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

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