1 Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever.
2 You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.
3 But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
4 And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us.
5 The point is, these capitalists--they and a few lawyers and priests and so forth who lived on them--were the lords of the earth.
6 Later I shall send you a book from which you will learn the true nature of the society we live in, and the strategy by which we shall destroy it.
7 Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels.
8 You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
9 But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them.
10 The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries.
11 If we choose to set you free when we have finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you will never learn whether the answer to that question is Yes or No.
12 Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory and live out their lives undetected in a back-street.
13 He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party.
14 The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labour, had haunted the human imagination for thousands of years.
15 The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.
16 In a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose.
17 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
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