“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”

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“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

“His answer to every problem, every setback was ‘I will work harder!’ — which he had adopted as his personal motto.”