1984

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“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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“All this marching up and down and cheering waving flags is simply sex gone sour.”

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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”