1 The future belonged to the proles.
2 Our only true life is in the future.
3 You were the dead, theirs was the future.
4 The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
5 But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
6 You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future.
7 For the future, for the past--for an age that might be imaginary.
8 Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened.
9 '"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,"' repeated Winston obediently.
10 The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
11 The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.
12 But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.
13 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.
14 To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
15 She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.
16 In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient--a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete--was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.
17 Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
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