Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.