It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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