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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.

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God made food; the devil the cooks.

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I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

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

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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

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