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

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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected...more

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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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O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.O’Brien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is no...more

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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own e...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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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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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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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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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

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What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room wa...more

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The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.