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Which character in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" said...

So you think you are a fan of "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. In our world, there can only be triumph and self-abasement. Everything else, we will destroy.

  2. [In his forbidden diary] If there is hope, it lies in the proles. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them.

  3. [In his forbidden diary] April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.

  4. Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing.

  5. Power is not a means, it's an end.

  6. [reciting poem] Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me.

  7. We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness.

  8. [last lines] I love you.

  9. [In his forbidden diary] Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow.

  10. We are the dead.

  11. You once asked me, Winston, what was in room 101. I think you know. Everyone does. The thing that is in room 101... is the worst thing in the world.

  12. If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.