"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."

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Source : WILLIAM GOLDING (1979). “DARKNESS VISIBLE”

William Golding

#Race Quotes #Mad Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“I can't grow a moustache.”
“You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.”
“People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.”
“To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.”
“All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1872). “The Sympathy of Religions; an Address Delivered ... February 6, 1870”, p.18
“I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.”
“Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.”
“At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.”

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