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...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Take pains. Be perfect.

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

How’s the patient? asked Derby.Dead to the world.But not actually dead.No.How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Educated men are so impressive!

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

Nessun maggior doloreche ricordarsi del tempo felicenella miseria...

But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.