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"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
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"I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world."
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"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."
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"We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that."
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"Have you gone crazy?"."
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"Have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
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"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method."
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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"Crazy gets all the knives."
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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."
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"Though this be madness yet there is method in 't."
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"Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness."
Strength
"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
Memory
"What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk."
Imagination
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Truth
"And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices."
Morality
"And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police. So would anybody else for that matter: but Syme more than most. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness."
Politics
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
Writing
"I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan."
Perspective
"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name."
Psychology
"We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them."
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