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Cards (21)

  • It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
  • The face of a man about 45 with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features
  • The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage
  • The patrols did not matter, however. Only the thought police mattered
  • WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
  • Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, Miniplenty
  • He did not know with any certainty that is this was 1984
  • For whom was he writing this diary?,
    For the future, for the unborn
  • We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness
  • Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past
  • Orthodoxy is unconsciousness
  • Winston woke up with the word Shakespeare on his lips
  • Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war
  • and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames
  • Winston‘s greatest pleasure in life was his work
  • It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words
  • The proles are not human beings
  • The only recognised purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the party
  • Desire was thoughtcrime
  • If there is hope, it lies in the proles