سر أسرار الحكم هو جمع المرء بين إيمانه بأنه لا يخطئ وقدرته على التعلم من أخطاء الماضي.

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

“You wanted a good time; "they," meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it…”

“Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were …”

“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian litera…”