1 To be killed was what you expected.
2 It would not matter if they killed you at once.
3 It wasn't just a question of somebody being killed.
4 The proper thing was to kill yourself before they got you.
5 Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.
6 Someone whom the old man loved--a little granddaughter, perhaps--had been killed.
7 The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.
8 The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.
9 And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
10 But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.
11 In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone.
12 At nineteen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst.
13 And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds of thousands or even millions of men were often killed in a few weeks, have never been repeated.
14 And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
15 In a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose.
16 A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.
17 The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline.
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