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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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Genius is born-not paid

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