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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly ...more

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's nex...more

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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own e...more

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. ...more

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mi...more

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If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

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But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at th...more

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Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing pois...more