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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Have read little and understood less.

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Thought is the thought of thought.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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Love loves to love love.

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