Survival in THT and 1984 Key Quotes

THT: “I intend…

…to last”

THT: “I refuse…

…to say ‘my’”

THT: “Whether this…

…is my end or new beginning I have no way of knowing…And so I step up, into the darkness within or else the light”

THT: “I’ll say…

…anything they like, I’ll incriminate anyone”

THT: “It’s a beautiful…

…May Day”

THT: “Ignoring isn’t…

…the same as ignorance, you have to work at it”

THT: “We learned…

…to whisper almost without sound”

THT: “I sink down…

…into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing”

THT: “treacherous…

…ground”

THT: “each twinge […]

these are signs”

THT: “I have failed once…

…again to fulfil the expectations of others, which have become my own”

1984: “effort to…

…walk. The lump of glass in his pocket banged against his thigh”

1984: “worst thing was…

…the pain in his belly. For a couple of minutes he had the feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon.”

1984: “struck him…

…that in a moment of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body”

1984: “Nobody ever…

…escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess. [..] succumbed to thoughtcrime, it was certain that by a given date you would be dead.”

1984: “It was a blow…

…struck against the Party. It was a political act.”

1984: “Freedom…

…is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted all else follows.”

1984: “He thought of…

…the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear”

1984: “Winston kept his back…

…to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back could be revealing.”

1984: “Do…

…it to Julia”