It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. You don't even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death -' O'Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. We control matter because we control the mind.
Reality is inside the skull.
You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility levitation - anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it.