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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Does nobody understand?

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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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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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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