1 'We lived here till my wife died,' said the old man half apologetically.
2 It occurred to him that he still did not know her surname or where she lived.
3 You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.
4 Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years.
5 You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives.
6 Winston noticed that the furniture was still arranged as though the room were meant to be lived in.
7 This was necessary, because except by direct enquiry it was never possible to discover where anyone lived.
8 He remembered the room where they lived, a dark, close-smelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane.
9 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.
10 It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling-places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived.
11 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.
12 It struck him that when one lived with a woman this particular disappointment must be a normal, recurring event; and a deep tenderness, such as he had not felt for her before, suddenly took hold of him.
13 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.
14 She must have followed him here, because it was not credible that by pure chance she should have happened to be walking on the same evening up the same obscure backstreet, kilometres distant from any quarter where Party members lived.
15 If he had known where she lived, and at what time she left work, he could have contrived to meet her somewhere on her way home; but to try to follow her home was not safe, because it would mean loitering about outside the Ministry, which was bound to be noticed.
16 In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.
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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