“This world has seen the birth of several strange animals.”

“Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.”

“Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.”

“But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by seeing a man as a strange animal and realising how strange an animal he is.”

“Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.”

“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”

“Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes”