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» 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.

» The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

» One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

» A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

» To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

» Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.

» To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

» As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.

» The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

» Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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