Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
William GoldingTags: innocence heaven childhood infancy
We have to face it at last. We're not all human.
William GoldingTags: humanity
We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.
Tags: knowledge power conviction destructiveness
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 GoldingTags: illusions humanity solitude madness delusions confusion
He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
William GoldingTags: people
...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.
William GoldingFather Adam!”
But the little man said nothing, did nothing. He stood still holding the letter, and there was not even a change of expression in his face; and this might be, thought Jocelin, because he has no face at all. He is the same all round like the top of a clothespeg. He spoke, laughing down at the baldness with its fringe of nondescript hair.
“I ask your pardon, Father Adam. One forgets you are there so easily!” And then, laughing aloud in joy and love— “I shall call you Father Anonymous!
I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.
William GoldingI cried out not with hope of an ear but as accepting a shut door, darkness and a shut sky.
William GoldingThe thing is---fear can't hold you any more than a dream...
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