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“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
― William Golding

“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, Lord of the Flies

“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”
― William Golding, The Spire

“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.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you?' said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. 'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies