quotes

“A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.”

“Life is very long, unless it is not.”

“There’s no secret to it. The trick is just to live.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms— to choose one’s own attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?”

“When you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.”

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

“Don’t let them use you. Don’t let them paint their posters with your blood. Not if you can help it.”

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”

“They will not use our tears for their entertainment.”

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

“Move across the country and start again someplace new.”