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

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The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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...rapid motion through space elates one.

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

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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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When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

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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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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

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