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“Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”

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George Orwell

“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

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George Orwell

“Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

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“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“At night all cats are grey.”

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George Orwell buch Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Quelle: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

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George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html <br class="br">&quot;The Lion and the Unicorn&quot; (1941) <br class="br">Quelle: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius <br class="br">Kontext: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.<br>They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.