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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

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We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Wins...more

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Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It w...more

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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of conscio...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