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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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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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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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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

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

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Love, yes. Word known to all men.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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

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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

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Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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