Winston Smith: I know you'll fail. Something in this world... some spirit you will never overcome... O'Brien: What is it, this principle? Winston Smith: I don't know. The spirit of man. O'Brien: And do you consider yourself a man? Winston Smith: Yes. O'Brien: If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist. Get up. O'Brien: *That* is the last man. If you are human, *that* is humanity. Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core. Winston Smith: Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me... Julia: I adore it.