Baihe (Lily) Yang’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you have nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Page 27: He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

Page 27: Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.