1984 — Vocabulary
George Orwell
(Edited)

The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind — surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false?p.266.4alternate pages10 more

All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us.p.58.1alternate pages10 more

He thought also of hurrying to the Community Centre and staying there till the place closed, so as to establish a partial alibi for the evening.p.101.9alternate pages6 more

For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?p.35.9alternate pages6 more

Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think.p.53.3alternate pages20 more

The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.p.254.1alternate pages19 more

But the really relevant date was seven or eight years earlier.p.75.3alternate pages3 more

The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.p.165.6alternate pages62 more

— for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives —p.201.9alternate pages62 more

Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2=5p.290.5alternate pages62 more

There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer.p.276.9alternate pages1 more

But in matters of vital importance — meaning, in effect, war and police espionage — the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.p.193.6alternate pages11 more

A week had gone by since she had first approached him.p.112.9alternate pages11 more

The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.p.138.2alternate pages5 more

It aroused in Winston dim memories of something seen long ago on a wall or a hoarding — a vast bottle composed of electric lights which seemed to move up and down and pour its contents into a glass.p.170.9alternate pages5 more

He lay back on the bed and tried to compose himself.p.280.4alternate pages5 more

The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify.p.38.7alternate pages7 more

Then he went on: 'What I had really intended to say was that in your article I noticed you had used two words which have become obsolete.'p.158.1alternate pages3 more

He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members.p.157.4alternate pages2 more

Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.p.40.8alternate pages1 more