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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“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.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“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.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Αν ξαναρχόμουν στον κόσμο θα ερχόμουν μόνο για να κάνω έρωτα και να φύγω. Και για το μόνο που θα λυπηθώ όταν θα φύγω, θα ‘ναι για τον έρωτα που θα χάσω, για τα πρόσωπα που δεν θα γνωρίσω. Όλα τα άλλα είναι αστεία. Τέλειωσαν οι εποχές που ένας άνθρωπος μπορούσε ν’ αντικαταστήσει τον ερωτικό του σύντροφο με μια συμφωνία του Μπετόβεν. Αυτά ανήκουν στο 19ο αιώνα. Σήμερα, ένας άνθρωπος που προβαίνει σε τέτοιες αντικαταστάσεις είναι μάλλον ύποπτος ψυχολογικών διαταραχών και μιας νοημοσύνης η οποία ακουμπάει την παρανοϊκότητα.”
― Μάνος Χατζιδάκις

“Words make love with one another.”
― Andre Breton

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
― André Breton

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
― Andre Breton

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
― Andre Breton, Mad Love

“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
― andre breton

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis