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“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
― George Orwell

“I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don't 'want' to cut down on my drinking, to pay my debts, to take enough exercise, to be faithful to my wife, etc. etc. But in another and more permanent sense I do want these things, and perhaps in the same sense I want a civilization in which 'progress' is not definable as making the world safe for little fat men.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man