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1  Our only true life is in the future.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  You were the dead, theirs was the future.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
3  The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
4  But in the future there will be no wives and no friends.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
5  You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
6  For the future, for the past--for an age that might be imaginary.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
7  In the future such fragments, even if they chanced to survive, would be unintelligible and untranslatable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
8  Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
9  '"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,"' repeated Winston obediently.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
10  Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9