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I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's nex...more

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Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. ...more

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If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

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But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at th...more

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Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing pois...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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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Reality is inside the skull.

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I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could ...more