1 Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth.
2 He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
3 The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
4 The truth was that after years of gin-drinking he could barely taste it.
5 But the truth was that he had no physical sensation, except that of mere contact.
6 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
7 She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet at the thought of lies becoming truths.
8 There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
9 At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth, and clearly the absolute can never have been different from what it is now.
10 Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.
11 If there was any one still alive who could give you a truthful account of conditions in the early part of the century, it could only be a prole.
12 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.
13 For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of DOUBLETHINK one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
14 That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves.
15 And presently some master brain in the Inner Party would select this version or that, would re-edit it and set in motion the complex processes of cross-referencing that would be required, and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.
16 Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.
17 But there had been a moment--he did not know how long, thirty seconds, perhaps--of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's had filled up a patch of emptiness and become absolute truth, and when two and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.
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