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“Неужели вам непонятно, что задача новояза – сузить горизонты мысли? В конце концов мы сделаем мыслепреступление попросту невозможным – для него не останется слов. Каждое необходимое понятие будет выражаться одним-единственным словом, значение слова будет строго определено, а побочные значения упразднены и забыты. В одиннадцатом издании, мы уже на подходе к этой цели. Но процесс будет продолжаться и тогда, когда нас с вами не будет на свете. С каждым годом всё меньше и меньше слов, всё уже и уже границы мысли. Разумеется, и теперь для мыслепреступления нет ни оправданий, ни причин. Это только вопрос самодисциплины, управления реальностью. Но в конце концов и в них нужда отпадёт. Революция завершится тогда, когда язык станет совершенным.”

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“Volvimos de España hace unas seis semanas, después de unas experiencias bastante malas hasta escapar por la frontera con la policía a un paso de nosotros. No puedes imaginarte lo terrible de las cosas que están pasando en España. Es un verdadero reino del terror, la imposición del fascismo bajo la excusa de la resistencia al fascismo, verdaderos centenares de personas encerrados en la cárcel y mantenidas durante meses sin juicio, supresión de diarios, etc., etc. Lo más repugnante es la manera como la llamada prensa antifascista en Inglaterra lo ha encubierto.”

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“İngiliz egemen sınıfının ahlaki açıdan oldukça güvenilir olduğunu daima göstermiş olan şey, savaş zamanı kendilerini öldürtmeye hazır olmalarıdır. çok sayıda dük, kont vs. Flanders'teki son seferde öldürüldü. Bu insanlar, kimi zaman ilan edildikleri gibi kinik hainler olsalardı, bu yaşanmazdı. Amillerini yanlış anlamamak önemli, yoksa insan eylemlerini öngöremez. Onlardan beklenecek olan şey kalleşlik ya da fiziksel korkaklık değil, aptallık, bilinçsiz sabotaj, yanılmaz bir yanlış olanı yapma içgüdüsüdür. Kötücül ya da tamamıyla kötücül değil, yalnızca eğitilmezlerdir. Ancak paralarını ve iktidarlarını kaybettiklerinde, aralarında genç olanlar hangi çağda yaşadıklarını anlayabileceklerdir.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“İngiltere savaştan nasıl çıkarsa çıksın, üstünde az önce bahsettiğim karakteristik özelliklerin büyük etkisi olacak. Ruslaştırılacağını ya da Almanlaştırılacağını umut eden entelektüeller hayal kırıklığına uğrayacaklar. Nezaket, riyakarlık, düşüncesizlik, kanuna hürmet ve üniforma düşmanlığı var olmayı sürdürecek, aynı içyağı pudingi ve puslu gökyüzü gibi. Bir ulusal kültürü ortadan kaldırmak için, yabancı bir düşmanın uzun süreli işgali gibi çok büyük bir felakete gerek vardır.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“Bu insan grupları arasında ne pasifistler ne komünistler ne de Kara Gömlekliler kendi çabasıyla büyük çaplı bir "savaşı durdurun" hareketi oluşturabilir. Fakat teslim olma koşullarının pazarlığını yapan hain bir hükümet için işlerin kolaylaşmasına yardımcı olabilirler. Fransız komünistleri gibi, milyonerlerin yarı bilinçli ajanlarına dönüşebilirler.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“Böylesi büyük ve bilinçli ihanetin İngiltere'de başarıya ulaşması olası değil, hatta denenmeye değecek kadar bile olası değil. Bununla birlikte, süper vergi ödeyenlerin çoğu için bu savaş bedeli ne olursa olsun durdurulması gereken delice bir aile çekişmesi. Yukarılarda bir yerlerden, muhtemelen de çoktan kurulmuş olan bir gölge kabineden bir "barış" hareketinin yola koyulduğuna şüphe yok. Bu insanlar yenilgi anında değil ama sıkıntıya hoşnutsuzluğun eklendiği durağan bir dönemde şans bulacaklar. Teslim olmaktan değil, yalnızca barıştan söz edecekler ve kuşkusuz kendilerini ve belki başka insanları iyi niyetle hareket ettiklerine ikna edecekler.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“Naziler, İngilizce konuşulan ülkelerde hiçbir zaman ciddi bir destekle karşılaşmadılar. Yaydıkları öğreti; daha çok orta sınıf entelijansiyası içinde bulunan, kendi ülkesini sevmeyi bırakmış olan, ama yine de vatanseverlik gereksinimi duyduğu için Rusya'ya karşı vatansever hisler geliştiren nadir bir insan tipini çekiyordu.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“Geçtiğimiz yirmi yıl boyunca, İngiliz solcuları arasında revaçta olan olumsuz, aylak görüş, entelektüellerin vatanseverlik ve fiziksel cesaretle dalga geçmeleri, İngiliz ahlakını yok etme ve hayata karşı hazcı bir "benim ne işime yarar ki" yaklaşımını sürekli yayma çabaları, zarar vermekten başka bir şey yapmadı. Bu insanların hayalini kurduğu yumuşak Milletler Cemiyeti evreninde yaşıyor olsaydık bile zararlı olurdu, ama Führerlerin ve bombardıman uçaklarının çağında bir felaketti. İster hoşumuza gitsin, ister gitmesin, ayakta kalmanın bedeli sıkılık.”

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Book:Why I Write
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“The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

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Book:1984
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“It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”

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Book:1984
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“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?' 'Except began Winston doubtfully, and he stopped. It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox. Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say 'The proles are not human beings' he said carelessly.”

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Book:1984
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“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities that Dali unquestionably possesses are a gift for drawing and an atrocious egoism. ‘At seven’, he says in the first paragraph of his book, ‘I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.’ This is worded in a deliberately startling way, but no doubt it is substantially true. Such feelings are common enough. ‘I knew I was a genius’, somebody once said to me, ‘long before I knew what I was going to be a genius about.”

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Author:George Orwell
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“Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark−haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.”

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Book:1984
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“It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except to a limited extent with war prisoners and colored slaves. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with a darkest suspicion. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his moral depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however often Persia or Egypt or Java or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.”

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Book:Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenants of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous, outrageous upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship or the semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. It follows that three super states not only cannot conquer one another but would gain no advantage by doing so. On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up like three sheaves of corn, and as usual, the ruling groups of all three powers are simultaneously aware and unaware of what they are doing. Their lives are dedicated to world conquest but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.”

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Book:Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“In a way it is necessary to marry. If marriage is bad, the alternative is worse. For a moment he wished that he were married; he pined for the difficulty of it, the reality, the pain. And marriage must be indissoluble, for better for worse, for richer, for poorer, till death do you part. The old christian ideal, marriage tempered by adultery. Commit adultery if you must, but have the decency to call it adultery. None of that amercian soulmate slop. Have your fun and then sneak home, juice of the forbidden fruit dripping from your whiskers, and take the consequences. Better that, perhaps, than horrible freedom? You'd know, at least, that it was real life that you were living.”

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Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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“In a way it is necessary to marry. If marriage is bad, the alternative is worse. For a moment he wished that he were married; he pined for the difficulty of it, the reality, the pain. And marriage must be indissoluble, for better for worse, for richer, for poorer, till death do you part. The old christian ideal, marriage tempered by adultery. Commit adultery if you must, but have the decency to call it adultery. None of that amercian soulmate slop. Have your fun and then sneak home, juice of the forbidden fruit dripping from your whiskers, and take the consequences. Better that, perhaps, than horrible freedom? You'd know, at least, that it was real life that you were living. The devil of it is, outside marriage, no decent relationship with a woman is possible.”

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Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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“But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!”

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Book:Animal Farm and 1984
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