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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

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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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Does nobody understand?

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All human history moves towards one great goal

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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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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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The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

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I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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