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George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, India.
* He was educated in England and worked as a police officer in Burma for five years.
* He resigned from the police force in 1927 and became a writer.
* He wrote novels, essays, and journalism, and is best known for his works *Animal Farm* and *1984*.
* *Animal Farm* is an allegorical novella about the dangers of totalitarianism.
* *1984* is a dystopian novel about a totalitarian society.
* Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950 at the age of 46.
* He is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
* His works are still widely read and studied today.

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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Truth

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

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Writing

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

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Life

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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Life

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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Truth

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

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Writing

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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Truth

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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Science

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

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Love

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

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Writing

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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Truth

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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Truth

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

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Truth

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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Inspirational

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

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Books

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