1984 Flashcards
If you
kept the small rules you could break the big ones
She ‘didn’t much
care for reading’, she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces
Girls
are always supposed to be so pure
You broke
the rules as best you could
People
are such hypocrites
The family
had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police
In this game
that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all
All you needed was
luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead
So long as
human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing
Then stop
talking about dying
The process
of life had ceased to be intolerable
The fact of
impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on
She only
questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life
History has
stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right
I don’t
imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime
By sharing
a small act of thoughtcrime he had turned the two of them into accomplices
The conspiracy
that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it
He had always
known that the grave was there and waiting for him
All children
are swine
When once you were in
the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference
They were not loyal to
a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another
They could spy
upon you day and night, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them
He hardly
thought of Julia. He could not fix his mind on her. He loved her and would not betray her
It was the
place with no darkness
There is no
difference between night and day in this place
You don’t think
the Party would arrest an honest man, do you?
If I could save
Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would
‘They got me
a long time ago,’ said O’Brien
All was justified
by the ultimate purpose
The Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake
The hallway
smelt of boiled cabbage
Big Brother
is watching you
Julia’s note
‘I love you’
It was a
political act
He did not feel
any temptation to tell lies to her
Foreigners…
were a kind of strange animal
The coral was
Julia’s life and his own fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal
He loved
Big Brother
‘I betrayed
you,’ he said
If you want an image of the future
imagine a boot stamping on a human face- for ever
