1 Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
2 The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.
3 For the future, for the past--for an age that might be imaginary.
4 Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
5 And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
6 The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.
7 The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious.
8 In one combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years.
9 At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable.
10 I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself.
11 Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets--anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
12 The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
13 He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Centre every evening for the past four years.
14 Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
15 Whenever he began to talk of the principles of Ingsoc, doublethink, the mutability of the past, and the denial of objective reality, and to use Newspeak words, she became bored and confused and said that she never paid any attention to that kind of thing.
16 Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes--slum tenements, starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats--even on the barricades the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort to get back into the past.
17 And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
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