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40 phrases by William Golding that demonstrate the essence of the writer

The best ideas are also the simplest.

I am amazed at how easily uninformed people arrive at certainties, at inflamed opinions when they have no basis for judgment.

The truth is, fear cannot hurt you more than a dream.

I am here; and here it is nowhere in particular.

Reason, when refined into logic, has something to offer.

I am an optimist by nature, and a pessimist by intellectual conviction.

That’s why you had to think; because thought is a valuable thing, which produces results.

When we have a vision, the eyes see nothing.

He wept for the end of innocence, for the darkness of the human heart and for the fall in the air of the true and wise friend.

I suffer from these various levels or intensities of belief that are, it seems, the human condition.

Man is a fallen being. He is dominated by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state is dangerous.

The problem was, if you were a boss, you had to think, you had to be wise, and then the occasion came so that you had to make a decision.

It’s just a feeling. And you have the impression that you are not hunting, but being hunted.

Craziness? Worse than madness. the sanity.

We need more humanity, more care, more love. There are those who expect a political system to produce this; and others who expect love to produce the system.

Art is, in part, communication, but only in part. The rest is discovered.

I believe that man suffers from a terrible ignorance of his own nature.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or wild?

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep up, gray faces looking over my shoulder.

There is a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without hurting each other.

Which is better: having laws and agreements, or hunting and killing?

There must be some way of life where all love is good, where one love cannot compete with another, but must add to it.

We’re all crazy, this whole damn race. We are involved in illusions, delusions, confusions, we are all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am scared. From the people.

He got lost in a labyrinth of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.

He found himself understanding the weariness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of a person’s life was spent watching one’s feet.

I can’t convince myself that my mental abilities are important enough to justify both the good and the bad they started.

This fear thing… You’re going to have to learn to live with it.

Maybe there’s a beast… Maybe it’s just us.

It seems to me that we live in two worlds. There is this physical, which is coherent, and there is a spiritual, which for the common man, with his flashes of religious experience, if you like to call them that – this world is often incoherent.

I produce my point of view, in the belief that it might be something like the truth.

I had to rely on memories of moments, to bet on what once seemed a certainty, but now I can be a stranger, remember with faith what I can’t recreate.

No human enterprise can be totally good… It always has to come at a cost.

Through our mother, we are part of the solar system and the entire universe. In the burning poetry of the fact that we are children of the stars.

Language fits into experience like a straitjacket.

When you’re afraid of someone, you hate them, but you can’t stop thinking about them. You delude yourself, saying that deep down, he’s cool. Then you see him again; it’s like asthma and you can’t breathe.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men – they are far superior and always have been.

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put the most important things first and act right?

Words can, through the writers’ devotion, skill, passion and luck, prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.

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