LIFE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Signs of life were visible now on the beach.
2 Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.
3 The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.
4 Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.
5 In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand.
6 The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.
7 Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously.
8 The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own.
9 But otherwise they seldom bothered with the biguns and their passionately emotional and corporate life was their own.
10 Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.
11 The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
12 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.
13 They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
14 His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.