Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache…

George Orwell
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Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ✨ Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun. Tribune, December 20, 1943.
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Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ✨ Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun. Tribune, December 20, 1943.

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