“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him thatit was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulatehis thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequencesof every act are included in the act itself. He wrote:Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“Thoughtcrime, they called it.”

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”

“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”