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Winston Smith quotes

A character in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

8 quotes spoken by or about Winston Smith, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 1
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 7
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 2
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 7
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 7
The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part Two, Chapter 9
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part Two, Chapter 9
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part Three, Chapter 1

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