The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed
into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 2, Chapter 5. |
So long as they were actually in this room, they both felt,
no harm could come to them.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston and Julia in room over Mr. Charrington's
junk-shop, Part 2, Chapter 5. |
Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had
no intention of carrying out. To hang on from day to day and
from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future,
seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always
draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston and Julia, Part 2, Chapter 5. |
She only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in
some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept
the official mythology, simply because the difference between
truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Describing Julia, Part 2, Chapter 5. |
Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 2, Chapter 6. |
He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave,
and it was not much better because he had always known that
the grave was there and waiting for him.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston describes feelings on meeting with
O'Brien, Part 2, Chapter 6. |
He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not
help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it. The clamorous
hunger in his belly seemed to justify him.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston as child ate more than his share
of food, leaving less for his family, Part 2, Chapter 7. |
The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade
you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while
at the same time robbing you of all power over the material
world.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 2, Chapter 7. |
It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything
- anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't
get inside you.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Julia, Part 2, Chapter 7. |
We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind
of secret organization working against the Party, and that you
are involved in it. We want to join it and work for it. We are
enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of INGSOC.
We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you
this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you
want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston to O'Brien, when he and Julia try
to join The Brotherhood, Part 2, Chapter 8. |
You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess,
and then you will die... There is no possibility that any perceptible
change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien explains the Brotherhood to Winston
and Julia, Part 2, Chapter 8. |
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs
in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston reading from Emmanuel Goldstein's
book, Part 2, Chapter 9. |
The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception
while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete
honesty.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
From Emmanuel Goldstein's book, Part 2,
Chapter 9. |
Everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made
monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death
and still singing.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 2, Chapter 10. |
It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting
another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there
was torture at the end of it.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 3, Chapter 1. |
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been
starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me.
Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody
else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell
you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do
to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of
them isn't six years old. 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!"
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Skull-faced prisoner, Part 3, Chapter 1. |
There were times when it went on and on until the cruel, wicked,
unforgivable thing seemed to him not that the guards continued
to beat him but that he could not force himself into losing
consciousness.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Interrogation and torture of Winston in
Ministry of Love, Part 3, Chapter 2. |
"I am taking trouble with you, Winston," he said,
"because you are worth trouble. You know perfectly well
what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though
you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged.
You suffer from a defective memory. You are unable to remember
real events and you persuade yourself that you remember other
events which never happened. Fortunately it is curable. You
have never cured yourself of it, because you did not choose
to. There was a small effort of the will that you were not ready
to make. Even now, I am well aware, you are clinging to your
disease under the impression that it is a virtue. Now we will
take an example. At this moment, which power is Oceania at war
with?"
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Torturer O'Brien to Winston, Part 3, Chapter
2. |
The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether
O'Brien was a friend or an enemy, had come back. O'Brien was
a person who could be talked to ... O'Brien had tortured him
to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain,
he would send him to his death. It made no difference.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston's feelings after torture by O'Brien,
Part 3, Chapter 2. |
There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they
had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to see how
they loved him. They begged to be shot quickly, so that they
could die while their minds were still clean.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien to Winston, describing breaking
down of three "traitors", Part 3, Chapter 2. |
"Do you remember writing in your diary," he said,
"that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,
since I was at least a person who understood you and could be
talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind
appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen
to be insane."
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien to Winston, Part 3, Chapter 2. |
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is
inside the skull.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien to Winston, Part 3, Chapter 3. |
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish
a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes
the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien to Winston, Part 3, Chapter 3. |
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping
on a human face -- for ever.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
O'Brien to Winston, Part 3, Chapter 3. |
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards
however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn
round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing
had changed except your own attitude; the predestined thing
happened in any case.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston capitulates to his interrogators,
Part 3, Chapter 4. |
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a
secret you must also hide it from yourself.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston struggles to hide old feelings
from Big Brother, Part 3, Chapter 4. |
Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care
what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones.
Not me! Julia! Not me!l.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston in Room 101, threatened with rats,
Part 3, Chapter 5. |
There were things, your own acts, from which you could not
recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out, cauterized
out.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Part 3, Chapter 6. |
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken
him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark
mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed
exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled
down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything
was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory
over himself. He loved Big Brother.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Last lines of novel, Part 3, Chapter 6. |
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of
expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the
devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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