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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell
Love, Relationship, Marriage
George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.191, Arcturus Publishing

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

George Orwell
Love, Marriage, Giving
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

George Orwell
Love, Men, Faces

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

George Orwell
Love, Betrayal, Real
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell
Love, Pain, Hard Work
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.358, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

George Orwell
Love, Children, Adults
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell
Love, Writing, Heart
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell
Love, Heart, Mean
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

George Orwell
Love, Romantic, Giving
George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.190, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell
Love, Loyalty, Essence
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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