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“An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
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“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded”
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“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it”
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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
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“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
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“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
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“The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
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