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1  Here we reach the central secret.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  Only by word of mouth, from mind to mind, could they pass on the secret.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
5  By a routine that was not even secret, all letters were opened in transit.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
6  He had the air of trying to keep what he was saying a secret between himself and the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
8  With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
9  For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
11  You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington's half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  They had flown from a secret airfield in Canada to a rendezvous somewhere in Siberia, and had conferred with members of the Eurasian General Staff, to whom they had betrayed important military secrets.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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