Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Orwell: Turning the Other Cheek

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. The second blow is, so to speak, part of the act of turning the other cheek.

("Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool")

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