Писать впечатления о книгах не хочется, потому что всё равно не скажу всего, что хочется, а чего заново велосипед изобретать. На память запощу цитаты, чтобы не потерять потом.
1984 Джордж Оруэлл
читать дальше— Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
— Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. Тот кто управляет прошлым, управляет будущим. Тот кто управляет настоящим, управляет прошлым.
— Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
— "How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
— Каждое сокращение было успехом, ибо чем меньше выбор слов, тем меньше искушение задуматься.
— The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
— To die hating them, that was freedom.
— There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. Хотите увидеть образ будущего? Представьте себе сапог, топчущий человеческое лицо — вечно.
— We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
— We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness
— Когда любишь кого-то, ты его любишь, и, если ничего больше не можешь ему дать, ты все-таки даешь ему любовь.Animal Farm ("Скотный двор" он же)
читать дальше— All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
— The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.Не хочется в новый год что-то из старого тащить, но всё дописывать лень страшная, потому закончу в следующий раз.