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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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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is n...more

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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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Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be h...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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You are rotting away, you are falling to pieces. What are you? A bag of filth. Now turn around and look into that mirror again. Do you see that thing ...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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If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

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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.

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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most ...more