That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The object of powder is powder.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.