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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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