The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
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