If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
If you can FEEL that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you — that would be the real betrayal.
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards.
What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
To die hating them, that was freedom.
