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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.

William Golding

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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 conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
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
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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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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