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.
Weitere Zitate von George Orwell
Zum Autor"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
"There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"International sport is war without shooting."
"There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways."
"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."