DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in…

DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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