George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
permanent hereditary
What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
sleep agony mind
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.
distance cat animal
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
forever happens
What happens to you here is forever.
brother doe like-you
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
party blow hatred
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
forever curiosity enemy
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
heritage heard sane
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
fatigue
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.
bones mute protest
the mute protest in your own bones
loss mysterious-things mysterious
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
You were the dead; theirs was the future.
thinking floats ifs
If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.
long donkey long-time
Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.