Frases de libros

1984

You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the futuro would resemble the present, in which case it would not liaten to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

He felt as if he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was a monster.

The past was dead, the future unimaginable.

Tragedy belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away.

You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades; but there were some comrades whose society was pleasanter than that of others.

You don't gasp the beauty of the destruction of words.

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

1984, by George Orwell.