Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be unders... - George Orwell, 1984

"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"

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