“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.”

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”

“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead...”

“You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.”