“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it.
I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance” chapter 7 THMT
“I repeat my former name, remind myself of what I could once do,
how others saw me. I want to steal something” Chapter 17 THMT
“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed.
I am alive, I live, I breathe,” chapter 1 THMT
“Ignoring is not the same as ignorance,
you have to work at it.” Chapter 10 THMT
“Sanity is a valuable possession;…
I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.” THMT
“Syme had ceased to exist:
he had never existed.” 1984
“Stricken immediately by an
overwhelming desire to possess it” (the notebook from Mr Charrington’s shop) Chapter 1 1984
“Now that he recognised himself as a dead man
it was important to stay alive as long as possible.” 1984
“Orthodoxy means not thinking- not needing to think.
Orthodoxy is unconciousness” 1984
“In the face of pain
there are no heros” 1984