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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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• There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. -- George Orwell
• George Orwell was an optimist.
• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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