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"Nineteen Eighty-Four" Quotes
In a dystopian future ruled by a totalitarian regime, Winston Smith struggles against constant surveillance, propaganda, and the erasure of truth.
Quotes
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
To die hating them, that was freedom.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.