Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
WILLIAM GOLDING
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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