The best books... are those that tell you what you know alre... - George Orwell, 1984
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
"At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation."
"Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull."
"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."