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He wondered, as he had many times wondered before,whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic wassimply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign ofmadness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today,to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be ALONEin holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But thethought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: thehorror was that he might also be wrong.He picked up the children’s history book and looked atthe portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own. It was as thoughsome huge force were pressing down upon you—somethingthat penetrated inside your skull, battering against yourbrain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you,almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. In the end theParty would announce that two and two made five, and youwould have to believe it. It was inevitable that they shouldmake that claim sooner or later: the logic of their positiondemanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but thevery existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by theirphilosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. Andwhat was terrifying was not that they would kill you forthinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, afterall, how do we know that two and two make four? Or thatthe force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable?If both the past and the external world exist only inthe mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?But no! His courage seemed suddenly to stiffen of itsown accord. The face of O’Brien, not called up by any obvi-
ous association, had floated into his mind. He knew, withmore certainty than before, that O’Brien was on his side.He was writing the diary for O’Brien—TO O’Brien: it waslike an interminable letter which no one would ever read,but which was addressed to a particular person and took itscolour from that fact.The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes andears. It was their final, most essential command. His heartsank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed againsthim, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrowhim in debate, the subtle arguments which he wouldnot be able to understand, much less answer. And yet hewas in the right! They were wrong and he was right. Theobvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truismsare true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its lawsdo not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupportedfall towards the earth’s centre. With the feeling thathe was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was settingforth an important axiom, he wrote:Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. Ifthat is granted, all else follows.
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not matter, however. Only the Thoug
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just taken out of the drawer. It wa
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er of expressing himself, but even
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home and begin the diary today.It h
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And again, perhaps it was not even
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itual style of the orators of the P
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a part, but, on the contrary, that
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in bold capitals:WAR IS PEACEFREEDO
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and executions, to be sure that the
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neck i dont care down with big brot
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to pieces. The plaster flaked const
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him about wherever he went, and eve
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‘Goldstein!’ bellowed the boy a
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The voice from the telescreen pause
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them, looked grim as the loopholes
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Chapter 3Winston was dreaming of hi
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Suddenly he was standing on short s
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to think his way backward into the
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ous, though strictly speaking it ha
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moment when it was needed, and then
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knees aren’t bent. You can all do
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unrolled. Each contained a message
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Page 61 and 62: ly, and upon the same evidence, as
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Page 81 and 82: Chapter 6Winston was writing in his
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Page 127 and 128: Suddenly his heart seemed to turn t
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Page 133 and 134: Chapter 1It was the middle of the m
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and get you killed off?’‘Yes, s
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to feel now that the sash was gone.
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clung together; it was quite differ
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fell apart. The sun seemed to have
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past her without recognition. But w
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and did not often coincide. Julia,
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I was only on the kaleidoscopes. I
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week. ‘She hated it, but nothing
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oulders at the bottom. There was no
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‘We’re not dead yet,’ said Ju
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and spoke in generalities, with so
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‘Tomorrow afternoon. I can’t co
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‘Real sugar. Not saccharine, suga
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quarters and bought herself a compl
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She suddenly twisted herself over i
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hour clock with a sort of tolerant
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it, along with the mahogany bed and
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files of ‘The Times’ and alteri
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of suffocation.In the room over Mr
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is within five minutes of striking.
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in any case the Party was invincibl
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to the old days, before the Revolut
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thodoxy while having no grasp whate
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subject. I have never had anything
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e found,’ was what O’Brien had
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In the dream he had remembered his
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his share. She took it for granted
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camp along with his mother, or simp
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hand lying on the pavement and had
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human, what difference did it ultim
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lack-uniformed guard would suddenly
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suddenly the grim face broke down i
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cating effect. Actually, when he ca
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deprived of the power of speech. Hi
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preserved. When you receive orders,
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in it as handfuls of dust and splin
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O’Brien. ‘We shall meet again
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Chapter 9Winston was gelatinous wit
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microphone with one hand while the
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or the alliance with Eastasia, shou
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THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OFOLIGARCHI
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it, the Japanese islands and a larg
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ice-cap, that the three powers are
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and efficient—a glittering antise
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Nor was it a satisfactory solution
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But this would provide only the eco
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is its subject matter. The scientis
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noeuvre which involves the risk of
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sense. Actually the three philosoph
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clothing, to avoid swallowing poiso
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den. The best books, he perceived,
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there always comes a moment when th
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then become the High; but this time
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was made up for the most part of bu
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cialist movement and inherited its
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organization. Below Big Brother com
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uling group is a ruling group so lo
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think too deeply on any subject wha
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that country must always have been
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leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately
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of impudence in their deliberate re
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then the usual deep-lunged singing
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down there had no mind, she had onl
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Julia’s eyes. Her face had turned
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ar rosebud from a cake, rolled acro
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with knowledge, at a member of the
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Chapter 1He did not know where he w
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to be on good terms with the guards
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eference to something called ‘roo
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His troubled eyes were gazing at th
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keep still. Time passed. Twenty min
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He sank his voice, like someone who
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the way round the bench. The eyes o
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for weeks. Finish it off and let me
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save Julia by doubling my own pain,
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Chapter 2He was lying on something
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periods of recovery. He remembered
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een the enemy of the Party, and in
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of his head was gripped in some man
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‘When I was arrested, Oceania was
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eally happen: that was the thought
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he had been saying to sink in.‘Do
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into Winston’s eyes, felt his pul
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‘I don’t know. Days, weeks, mon
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stop imagining that posterity will
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of the range of his vision. O’Bri
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‘Oceania has always been at war w
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It was a perfect conversion, a text
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Chapter 3‘There are three stages
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for the good of the majority. That
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‘You are thinking,’ he said,
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‘But the whole universe is outsid
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any longer. But in the future there
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‘It would have no vitality. It wo
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The bonds had loosened themselves.
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hands? Even your hair is coming out
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and she to him, their black-market
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They had given him a white slate wi
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up against the power of the Party.
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somewhere or other, outside oneself
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sweat broke out on his backbone. He
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an intellectual discipline. It was
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Chapter 5At each stage of his impri
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There was something terrible on the
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the door of the cage will slide up.
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Chapter 6The Chestnut Tree was almo
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the place was full he had it to him
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2+2=5‘They can’t get inside you
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oader, he noticed.‘I betrayed you
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I sold you and you sold me——’
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a dice-box, and laughing excitedly.
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measurable distance of its end—vi
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medium of expression for the world-
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interchangeability between differen
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suppressed.The only classes of word
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simply because -TRUEFUL, -PAXFUL, a
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egulated by the two Newspeak words
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a composite picture of universal hu
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of the Party as a DOUBLEPLUSGOOD DU
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the passage of time the distinguish
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uals, and the like—that had to be
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