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1  At the time he was not conscious of wanting it for any particular purpose.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
3  In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labour power.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
5  But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  It refers to something almost as easily recognized, and as limited in purpose, as a chair or a table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
7  He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the ultimate purpose.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
8  It was intended only to express simple, purposive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
9  In the beginning the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a conscious purpose.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
10  Nor did he seem shocked or become offensively knowing when it was made clear that Winston wanted the room for the purpose of a love-affair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
11  Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Newspeak was designed not to extend but to DIMINISH the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
13  He went to the bathroom and carefully scrubbed the ink away with the gritty dark-brown soap which rasped your skin like sandpaper and was therefore well adapted for this purpose.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  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
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15  The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
16  All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee appointed for the purpose, and--though the principle was never clearly stated--permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
17  And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process--by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute--the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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