I Doubt Whether Classical Education Ever Has

The Inflated Style Is Itself A Kind Of Euphemism. A Mass Of Latin Words Falls Upon The Facts Like Soft Snow, Blurring The Outlines And Covering Up All The Details. The Great Enemy Of Clear Language Is Insincerity.

Nothing Was Your Own Except The Few Cubic Centimetres Inside Your Skull.

It Struck Him That The Truly Characteristic Thing About Modern Life Was Not Its Cruelty And Insecurity, But Simply Its Bareness, Its Dinginess, Its Listlessness. Life, If You Looked About You, Bore No Resemblance Not Only To The Lies That Streamed Out Of The Telescreens, But Even To The Ideals That The Party Was Trying To Achieve.

There Are Some Things Only Intellectuals Are Crazy Enough To Believe.

To Accept An Unorthodoxy Is Always To Inherit Unresolved Contradictions