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#1

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

tags: truth

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#2

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4466 likes

#3

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

tags: secrets

3609 likes

#4

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#5

“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

1277 likes

#6

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: enemies

843 likes

#7

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

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

1700 likes

#8

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: revolutionary

381 likes

#9

“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational, life

269 likes

#10

“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984

54 likes

#11

“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: death, life

56 likes

#12

“What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#13

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

17 likes

#14

“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#15

“Nothing exists except through human consciousness”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, consciousness, dystopia, fiction, george-orwell, human

24 likes

#16

“The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”
― George Orwell, 1984

11 likes

#17

“I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#18

“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.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#19

“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george-orwell, love, own-little-world, prudishness, quote, selfishness

9 likes

#20

“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#21

“She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, julia

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#22

“But though it is unreal, it is not meaningless.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#23

“Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#24

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2247 likes

#25

“Who cares?' she said impatiently, 'it's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.”
― George Orwell, 1984

9 likes

#26

“Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered?”
― George Orwell, 1984

12 likes

#27

“Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984

14 likes

#28

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

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