1 This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him.
2 But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.
3 Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
4 Now it was all over, and he had literally nothing to do, no Party work of any description, until tomorrow morning.
5 Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
6 All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
7 One literally never saw them except in the guise of prisoners, and even as prisoners one never got more than a momentary glimpse of them.
8 It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
9 When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference.
10 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.
11 It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought--that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc--should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 12 For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.