1 The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.
2 All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over.
3 The girl finished her lunch quickly and made off, while Winston stayed to smoke a cigarette.
4 It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
5 Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
6 He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen.
7 At the sight of the words I LOVE YOU the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.
8 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.
9 He would get up because the ache in his bones was no longer bearable, and then would sit down again almost at once because he was too dizzy to make sure of staying on his feet.
10 At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.
11 At thirty-five he had just been unwillingly evicted from the Youth League, and before graduating into the Youth League he had managed to stay on in the Spies for a year beyond the statutory age.
12 And until that happened, though it might be a thousand years, they would stay alive against all the odds, like birds, passing on from body to body the vitality which the Party did not share and could not kill.