How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #1
As I write this: I feel my cheeks burn. I suppose this resembles what a woman experiences when she first hears a new pulse within her—the pulse of a tiny, unseeing, mini-being. This text is me; and simultaneously not me. And it will feed for many months on my sap, my blood, and then, in anguish, it will be ripped from my self and placed at the foot of the One State. (1.9)
D-503 looks at his diary as an extension of himself, and also something that is absolutely in the services of the State. In that sense, we really are looking at his soul written onto the pages.
Quote #2
Every morning, with six-wheeled precision, at the same hour, at the same minute, we wake up, millions of us at once. (3.6)
This really is fascism in its purest form. Identity is determined by the State and each individual member of the State must fulfill it perfectly.
Quote #3
I see myself as a part of an enormous, vigorous, united body; and what precise beauty! Not a single superfluous gesture or bow, or turn. (7.3)
This is typical of D-503's early thoughts: viewing himself as a small component in a great whole rather than a man with individual thoughts or feelings.