1984

by George Orwell

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”

Meanwhile I shall send you a copy of the book—” even O’Brien, Winston noticed, seemed to pronounce the words as though they were in italics

He fell asleep murmuring “Sanity is not statistical,” with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.

Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing.”