Nineteen Eighty-Four Quotes

O'Brien: Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing.

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Syme: Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

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Winston Smith: [reciting poem] Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me.

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Winston Smith: Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.

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[Winston and Julia are watching the washerwoman]
Winston Smith: She's beautiful.
Julia: She's a metre across the hips, easily.
Winston Smith: That is her style of beauty.

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