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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to tak...more

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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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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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

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

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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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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What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will ...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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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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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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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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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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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