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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.

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

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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...rapid motion through space elates one.

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

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The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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