“I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!”

“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”

“In this world,” I kept whispering, “you were the only thing I had but you were the only thing I needed.”

“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”

“Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.”

“I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.”