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1  There lie they, and here lie we.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
2  Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
3  There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
5  All he cared for was to lie quiet and feel the strength gathering in his body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
6  The board was cracked and the tiny wooden dice were so ill-cut that they would hardly lie on their sides.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
7  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  As you lie there,' said O'Brien, 'you have often wondered--you have even asked me--why the Ministry of Love should expend so much time and trouble on you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
9  Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
10  Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
11  In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
13  He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a child's face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
14  For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of DOUBLETHINK one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  And presently some master brain in the Inner Party would select this version or that, would re-edit it and set in motion the complex processes of cross-referencing that would be required, and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
16  Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
17  He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
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