1 You were lifted clean out of the stream of history.
2 It's a little chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter.
3 One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books.
4 All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
5 The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now.
6 Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again.
7 It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind.
8 It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.
9 He picked up the children's history book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.
10 It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
11 And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history.
12 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.
13 Suddenly the passage from the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston's mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him.
14 Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible.
15 There then rose schools of thinkers who interpreted history as a cyclical process and claimed to show that inequality was the unalterable law of human life.
16 History had already been rewritten, but fragments of the literature of the past survived here and there, imperfectly censored, and so long as one retained one's knowledge of Oldspeak it was possible to read them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 17 But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.
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