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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

William Golding

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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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All Savage What
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Always Biography Disguise Novel
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On

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