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“Two Minutes Hate,”
― 1984
― 1984
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― 1984
― 1984
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different. It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not it cruelty and insecurity, but simply is bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations - that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.”
― 1984
― 1984
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