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Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot ch...more

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But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no ...more

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When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt abo...more

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because t...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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

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And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to th...more

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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the un...more

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Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefab...more

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What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to su...more

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But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctionsaway. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has noef...more