The Words Kept Coming Back To Him Statement Of A

"“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”"

"“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”"

"“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”"

"“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”"

"“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”"

"“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”"