1984

Book · 6 characters · 1213 quotes · 2003

Quotes from 1984

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"The Party is immortal; you are not."
O'Brien Power
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"I love you more than my own life."
Winston Smith Love
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"Syme had been unpersoned. He no longer existed."
Winston Smith Politics
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"Slavery is freedom. Freedom is the right to say no."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"The Party wants absolute obedience, not the obedience of mere obedience."
O'Brien Power
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"The glass paperweight contained the past."
Winston Smith History
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"In the end, we shall be happy."
Winston Smith Hope
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"Comrade, you are rotting away. You are falling to pieces."
O'Brien Strength
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"The man in black will come with whips and chains."
Winston Smith Fear
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"There is no escape. The past is dead. The future does not exist."
O'Brien Time
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"The future belonged to the Proles."
Winston Smith Hope
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"Rebellion means waking up."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"You must love Big Brother."
O'Brien Power
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"I do not accept your answers. Furthermore, I am not even sure that some of your answers are right."
Winston Smith Truth
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"If the Party says two plus two equals five, then it is so."
O'Brien Power
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"You are a thought-criminal, Winston. You are also insane."
O'Brien Politics
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"The best books are treasuries of the dead."
Winston Smith Literature
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"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
O'Brien Power
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"Rats. They were all round us. A favorite punishment: to be placed in a cage with your worst fear."
Winston Smith Fear
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"Do not trust your own mind. Accept what the Party tells you."
O'Brien Power
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."
O'Brien Power
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"The Party wants you to feel like a slave, like an animal who exists only by sufferance."
O'Brien Power
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"The only real power comes through doing what others are afraid to do."
O'Brien Power
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"The worst thing in the world, the worst thing in the world, is not pain. It is fear."
O'Brien Fear
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"The whole literature of the past will be gone. We're cutting the language down to the bone."
Syme
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"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!"
Winston Smith Fear
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"Even to understand the word 'politics' you would need to swallow enormous amounts of lies."
O'Brien Truth
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"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien Power
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
O'Brien Power