It then becomes clear and certain to him that he does not know a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world around him is there only as representation, in other words, only in reference to another thing, namely that which represents, and this is himself.
handquotes
To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.