1984

Book · 6 characters · 1213 quotes · 2003

Quotes from 1984

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"Do anything, but not that! Not Room 101!"
Winston Smith Fear
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"In the end we shall shoot you."
O'Brien Death
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"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith Truth
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"Humanity is not ready for freedom."
O'Brien Freedom
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"The best books are treasuries of the best that men have thought."
Winston Smith Literature
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Winston Smith Relationships
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"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
Winston Smith
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"The Party is not concerned with 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 Politics
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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
O'Brien Hope
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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 is not concerned with overt acts. The thought is all we care about."
O'Brien Politics
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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Winston Smith Hope
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"It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be."
O'Brien Power
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"You are thinking of rebellion. You will not succeed."
O'Brien Fear
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"Pain is always present as the ruling force of existence. The only escape is into compliance."
O'Brien Power
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"You are a slow learner, Winston, but you will learn."
O'Brien Wisdom
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"Everything fades into mist. Your mind loses its sharpness, the clarity of your thoughts deteriorates."
O'Brien Fear
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"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."
O'Brien Power
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"The Party is eternal. The Party is infallible. If you accept that, everything else follows."
O'Brien Philosophy
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"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You did not save yourself. I did not save you. We did not save you."
O'Brien Power
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"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien Politics
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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
O'Brien Fear
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith Death
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"The Party would prefer that we hate Goldstein more than we love Big Brother."
Syme Politics
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"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
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."
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