Winston Smith

"The only thing worth writing about now is an unprintable subject."

"The girl's thin shoulders had a sharp, nervous quality that suggested a body coiled for action."

"Their embrace had been a failure. He had pushed her away, almost as though he hated her."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"We are the dead. Our time is up."

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

"I love Big Brother."

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me!"

"Rats, he thought, or maggots, or worms?"

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me."

"How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible."

"I love Big Brother."

"Alone—free—the thought filled him with an almost sexual excitement."

"The hope lay in the proles, if the proles could somehow become conscious of their own strength."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel."

"The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion."

"The world will not change. Nothing ever changes."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I'll do anything, anything!"

"We shall meet again, perhaps in some other paradise where the Party does not rule."

"If you can feel that staying human is worth while even when it can't and doesn't lead to any external success, you've beaten them."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

"Our new, happy life had begun."

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."

"To die hating them, that was freedom."