"they had come to a time when..." - Quote by George Orwell

“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”

“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire”

“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”

“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?”

“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.”

“There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation”

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.”