Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.
Happiness can only exist in acceptance.
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
The organizing principal for any culture is War.
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.
Weakness is strength.
Reality is inside the skull.
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
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