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This reads as reassurance that hardship has a limit, even when it feels overwhelming in the moment. The thought behind it is that distress can distort time, making a hard stretch seem endless, but it does pass. It lands for someone in a slump, facing a setback, or needing a reminder that a present difficulty is not a permanent identity.
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About George Orwell
English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic. He is known for writing with clear prose and for work shaped by social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support for democratic socialism. His writing is marked by direct language and a strong political conscience. Across his novels, essays, and journalism, he returns to questions of power, public life, and freedom, and he is closely associated with criticism of totalitarian rule and with democratic socialist ideas.
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Books by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The source of many political quotes.
Animal Farm
A short political fable.