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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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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 sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

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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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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

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There's no police like Holmes.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

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