The Treachery of Images/Quotes

"Winston: Does Big Brother exist?

O'Brian: Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.

Winston: Does he exist in the same way as I exist?

O'Brian: You do not exist."

- 1984

""The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.""

- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

""Do you hear what I'm saying? If so, you'd better have your ears checked, because nobody said anything at all.""

- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.