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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.
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 mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
