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"And when memory failed and written records were falsified-when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."

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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

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"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."

"It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain."

"For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."

"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed."

"Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to."

"If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters."

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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