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    William Golding
    “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
    "Who cares?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: nature, optimist, pessimist
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    William Golding
    “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.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: lord-of-the-flies
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    William Golding
    “I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”
    ― William Golding, The Spire
    tags: confusion, insignificance, sense-of-place, universality
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    William Golding
    “Worse than madness. Sanity.”
    ― William Golding, Pincher Martin
    tags: madness, sanity
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    William Golding
    “The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".”
    ― William Golding
    tags: character, gentleman, good-conduct
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    William Golding
    “What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.”
    ― William Golding
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    William Golding
    “No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: cost, human-endeavour, humanity
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    William Golding
    “The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: humanity, pleasure, understanding
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    William Golding
    “Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.”
    ― William Golding
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    William Golding
    “We don't know much about our current selves, do we?”
    ― William Golding, The Paper Men
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    William Golding
    “As long as there's light we're brave enough”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Heaven lies around us in our infancy.”
    ― William Golding, Darkness Visible
    tags: childhood, heaven, infancy, innocence
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    William Golding
    “If only one had time to think!”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: time
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    William Golding
    “The way towards simplicity is through outrage.”
    ― William Golding, Darkness Visible
    tags: outrage, simplicity, sophy
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
    tags: experience
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
    1262 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
    538 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
    ― Huxley Aldous
    tags: traveling
    457 likes



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