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"Can Socialists Be Happy?" Tribune (20 Dec 1943) [as John Freeman] - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say…