

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― 1984
― 1984

“I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.”
― Coriolanus
― Coriolanus

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye

“Think progress, not perfection.”
― The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
― The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
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