Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously.
His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly,
but its translucency. He felt that if he held up his hand he
would be able to see the light through it. All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous de-bauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves,
bones, and skin. All sensations seemed to be magnified.
His overalls fretted his shoulders, the pavement tickled his feet, even the opening and closing of a hand was an effort that made his joints creak. - P148
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.... - P152
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This-although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE. - P164
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are.
The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High.
The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently con-scious of anything outside their daily lives is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. - P166
The Middle, so long as it was struggling for power, had always made use of such terms as freedom, justice, and fraternity. - P167
Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected bythe Utopianism of past ages. But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned. - P167
If he is a person naturally orthodox (inNewspeak, a goodthinker), he will in all circumstances know, without taking thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion. But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak words crimestop, blackwhite, and doublethink, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever. - P174
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