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1  He did not feel any temptation to tell lies to her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
3  She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet at the thought of lies becoming truths.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
4  He had imagined her a fool like all the rest of them, her head stuffed with lies and hatred, her belly full of ice.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
5  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
6  It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  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
10  Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  DOUBLETHINK lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  A thousand times better than Winston he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
13  Between the frontiers of the super-states, and not permanently in the possession of any of them, there lies a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong, containing within it about a fifth of the population of the earth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
14  Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
15  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
16  the mystique of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, depends upon DOUBLETHINK But deeper than this lies the original motive, the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought DOUBLETHINK, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
17  To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies--all this is indispensably necessary.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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