William Golding citáty

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„Strach vám nemůže ublížit víc než sen.“

„Lidé nejsou nikdy úplně takoví, za jaké je člověk má.“

„Jak vás jen mohlo napadnout, že obluda je něco, co se dá ulovit a zabít.“

„Strach neexituje, ledaže se bojíme lidí.“

„Nejlepší nápady jsou ty nejjednodušší.“

„Možná je to nějaká bestie... možná jsme to jen my.“

„Mé včerejšky jdou se mnou. Drží krok, jsou to šedé tváře, které mi koukají zpoza zad.“

„Člověk páchá zlo tak, jako včela produkuje med.“

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”

“The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.”

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”

“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." […] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.”

“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”

“I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either."
Piggy paused.
"Unless—"
Ralph moved restlessly.
"Unless what?"
"Unless we get frightened of people.”

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

“People don't help much.”

“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”

“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”

“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”

“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”

“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”

“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”

“The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble…”

“The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.”

“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”

“Worse than madness. Sanity.”

“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.”

“We're not savages. We're English.”

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

“The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.”