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‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
