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#1

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

#2

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness

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#3

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four

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#4

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: power

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#5

“Most of the great and wealthy are fools, that's obvious to anyone who knows a bit about life, and what could be fairer than that? After all, if they had wit as well as wealth, they'd be far too well off and the rest of mankind far too wretched.”
― Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut

tags: inspiring

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#6

“At last both were out of the quivering apartment-the vibration of the door I had slammed after then still rang in every nerve, a poor substitute for the backhand slap with which I ought to have hit her across the cheekbone according to the rules of the movies.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: lolita, lyrical, prose

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#7

“Love is an innocent passion. How is it that, for me, it's turned into a source of misery and immortality?”
― Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut

tags: heartfelt

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#8

“In my youth jeans had to be tight enough to cause arteriosclerosis. This kids drawers would accommodate a party of three.”
― Kathy Reichs, Bare Bones

tags: humor

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#9

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#10

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#11

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#12

“It wasn't a room that any moderately good hotel couldn't duplicate; but there wasn't one chip, one scratch, one speck of dust anywhere, and you had the feeling that the waiters would, without flicking an eyelash, bring you anything that you wanted the way you wanted it, even, if you really insisted, their own ears and eyes, braised in sherry.”
― John Braine, Room at the Top

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#13

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

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#14

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#15

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

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#16

“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#17

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

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#18

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science

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#19

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, future, history, past, present

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#20

“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#21

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

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#22

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: dictatorship

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#23

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

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