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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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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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I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and...more

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What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your m...more

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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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Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every...more

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And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had...more

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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.