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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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You wouldn't care if I was dead. Nobody'd care. That's all you want, just my damned body, not me. Nobody wants me, just my damned body. And I'm damned and you're damned with your cock and your cleverness and your chemistry-
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion
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And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
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His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
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