We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.