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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

George Orwell
Party, Heart, Eye
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

George Orwell
Wall, Lying, Heart
George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

George Orwell
War, Struggle, Heart
George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell
Love, Writing, Heart
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

George Orwell
Heart, Years, Tears
George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell
Love, Heart, Mean
George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

George Orwell
Dream, Heart, Looks

Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

George Orwell
Heart, Differences, Feelings

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

George Orwell
Heart, Rooms, Crystals
George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

George Orwell
Writing, Heart, Pennies
George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.

George Orwell
Cheer, War, Heart
George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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