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“Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography

George Orwell on politics and the english language: What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. I

The aim of newspeak is to make speech independent of consciousness as much as possible and consequently, it would be virtually impossible to say anyth

Baldwin understood the singular importance of the novel, because he saw the dilemma his country faced as essentially an interior one, as his fellow ci