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[telescreen] the instrument...could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely

the patrol did not matter...only the Thought Police mattered

the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously

freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four

you had to live...in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard...and every movement scrutinised

it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two

but the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off

the expression in his eyes might conceivably have betrayed him

thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever

so vicious was the boy's demeanor that it was not altogether a game

like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters

[children] adored the Party and everything connected with it

almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

we shall meet in the place where there is no darkness

the past was dead, the future unimaginable

thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death

who controls the past...controls the future, who controls the present controls the past

a single flicker of the eyes could give you away

the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

we're destroying words...hundreds of them, every day

we're cutting language down to the bone

it's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words

'it was B.B's idea originally, of course' he added as an afterthought

the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought

we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it

it was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen

facecrime

making a baby = duty to the party

the past was erased, the erasure forgotten, the lie became truth

the clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same

so long as human beings stay human, life and death are the same thing

the paperweight was the room he was in and the coral was the Julia's life and his own

a chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter

if you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love

if there was hope, it lay in the proles!

here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

how small...how small it always was! [glass paperweight]

[cell] in this place...the lights would never be turned out

[prisoner] do anything to me...I'll do whatever you want...I don't care who it is or what you do to them...you can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it...but not room 101!

nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain...in the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over

we convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him

we make him one of ourselves before we kill him...we make the brain perfect before we blow it out

we shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves

does he [Big Brother] exist in the same way as I exist? You do not exist

power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing

we control life...you are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us...but we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable

if you are a man, Winston, you are the last man

under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me

but it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

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