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- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…
- Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
- Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,…
- Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
- The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—…
- He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into…
- It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
- In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
- For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
- You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except…
- And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that…
- To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record…
- Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
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