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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even agains...more

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But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...more

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To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exis...more

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The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head,...more

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If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most ...more

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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on ...more

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A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sen...more