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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

William Golding

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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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