The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
From George Orwell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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