The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.