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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven," Aunt Al said. " 'For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.'

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

You see this is a chair, but when you come to describe it, you do so from where you are positioned, and from your own perspective, and so you cannot say there is only one way of seeing a chair, can...

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Empathy is Gasby's heart, like many other novels. There is nothing more reproven than being blind in the face of the problems and pains of others.

I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.

Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

{T}he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you.

We were all victims of the arbitrary nature of a totalitarian regime that constantly intruded into the most private corners of our lives and imposed its relentless fictions on us. Was this rule the...

Razieh had an amazing capacity for beauty. She said, You know, all my life I have lived inpoverty. I had to steal books and sneak into movie houses-but, God, I loved those books! I don't think any...

Reading a novel is not an exercise in censure.

When the girls left that afternoon, they left behind the aura of their unsolved problems and dilemmas. I felt exhausted, I chose the only way I knew to cope with problems. I went to the refrigerator,...

Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the...