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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.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
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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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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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