Compiled by Dylan Grayson Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. …to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife… The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable… Sanity is not statistical. It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same-everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same-people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
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