1984 Part 2 quotes

"always yell with the crowd, that's what I say

It's the only way to be safe

"She was

'not clever'

"she hated

the party

"with Julia, everything

came back to her own sexuality

"some kinds of failures are better

that other kinds, that's all

"We are the dead' he said.

'We're not dead yet' said Julia prosaically

"he wished above all that they had some place where they could be alone together…

without feeling the obligation to make love every time they met

"the paperweight was the room he was in,

and the coral was Julia's life and his own"

"in reality

there was no escape

"spinning out a present

that had no future

"it would always exist,

and it would always be the same

"the rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself,

'just to keep people frightened

"I'm not interested in the next generation, dear.

I'm interested in us

'you're only a rebel

from the waist downwards

"Julia was more

than just an affair

"the last step was something that would happen

in the ministry of love

'the end was

contained in the beginning

"it was like a foretaste

of death

"if you can feel that staying human is worth while,

even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them

"when you have read the book

you will be full members of the Brotherhood

"a wave of admiration, almost of worship

flowed out from Winston towards O'Brien

"so ugly and yet so civilised,

it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated

"nothing holds it together

except an idea which is indestructible

"we are the dead.

our only true life is in the future

"the theory and practise of

oligarchical collectivism' by Emmanuel Goldstein

"he understood how;

he did not understand why

"if there was hope

it lay in the proles

2+2

= 5

"someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table

and smashed it to pieces

"carried her out of the room

like a sack

"and that was the last

he saw of her

"he wondered whether

they had got Mr Charrington

"it occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge…

at a member of the Thought Police