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“to die hating them, that was freedom.”

fuuuuck

“but we make the brain perfect before we blow it.”

HELLO??????????

“how many fingers am i holding up, winston?”

“four.”

“and if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?”

“four.”

PREACH.

“the aim of the high is to remain where they are. the aim of the middle is to change places with the high. the aim of the low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”

“the essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. was is a way of shattering pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”

“you’re only a rebel from the waist downwards,”

CLOCKED HER SO BAD I AUDIBLY GASPED 😭😭

“he learned with astonishment that all the workers in pornosec, except the head of the department, were girls. the theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in great danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled.”

no shit

“in the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. but you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. no emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.”

“only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone; but that was of no importance. he thought of her naked, youthful body, as he had seen it in his dream.”

HELP ?????

“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?”

god my brain is gonna explode