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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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.
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Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
