There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.
Weitere Zitate von George Orwell
Zum Autor"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written."
"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person."
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."
"In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."