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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.

William Golding

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People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Always Biography Disguise Novel
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Beast Harmless Horrible Must News Other Possible Reach Soon
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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
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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Away Cease Cloud Drift Incredible Lamp Mighnight More Once Scatter Sky Star Towards
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Behind Consciousness Country Liberated Mask Own People Person Self Shame Think
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Beast Claw Fear Know Mean No Pause Piggy
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Applying Believe Ignorance Man Nature Own Suffer
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word

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