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

"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?"

"At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation."

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."

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

"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."