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But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves

Mr winston in prison 🥲

MISTER CHARRINGTON 😮😮😮😮

There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or itgoverns so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. Thesecauses do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree.

You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die.Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
We shalltake part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a

“I don’t mean confessing. Confession is not betrayal.
What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you --that would be the real betrayal.”

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

Winston and his lover ...

Freedom is freedom to say 2+2 is 4