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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Being in a minority, even in 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.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

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

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Big Brother is Watching You.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

When you're an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

You see this is a chair, but when you come to describe it, you do so from where you are positioned, and from your own perspective, and so you cannot say there is only one way of seeing a chair, can...

A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.

Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven," Aunt Al said. " 'For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.'

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life......

When the girls left that afternoon, they left behind the aura of their unsolved problems and dilemmas. I felt exhausted, I chose the only way I knew to cope with problems. I went to the refrigerator,...

We were all victims of the arbitrary nature of a totalitarian regime that constantly intruded into the most private corners of our lives and imposed its relentless fictions on us. Was this rule the...

But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed,...

Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

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

Empathy is Gasby's heart, like many other novels. There is nothing more reproven than being blind in the face of the problems and pains of others.