Цитаты из книги «1984. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

His heart was thumping like a drum

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body.

In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

You were abolished, annihilated: vapourized was the usual word.

At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.

Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.