It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe greatest ideas are the simplest.
More William Golding Quotes
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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