1984 quotes Flashcards
1
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Who controls the past, controls the future.
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Who controls the present, controls the past
2
Q
‘War is peace
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Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
3
Q
‘Big brother is
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watching you’
4
Q
“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an
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endless present in which the Party is always right.”
5
Q
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct
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—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
6
Q
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part
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but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”