He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
To the future or to the past$$$ to a time when thought is free$$$ when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity$$$ from the age of solitude$$$ from the age of Big Brother$$$ from the age of doublethink — greetings!
To know and not to know$$$ to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies$$$ to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out$$$ knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them$$$ to use logic against logic$$$ to repudiate morality while laying claim to it$$$ to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy$$$ to forget whatever it was necessary to forget$$$ then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed$$$ and then promptly to forget it again: and above all$$$ to apply
Being in a minority$$$ even in a minority of one$$$ did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth$$$ and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world$$$ you were not mad.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending$$$ involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates$$$ he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always$$$ without exception$$$ it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal$$$ unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him$$$ full of calm power. White always mates.
For$$$ after all$$$ how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind$$$ and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.