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

his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred,

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue,

in the eyes of the Party there was no distinction between the thought and the deed

They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

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

to squeeze out some childhood memory

The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime. Even to have awakened Katharine, if he could have achieved it, would have been like a seduction, although she was his wife.

The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence.