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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

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Life is the great teacher.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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Thought is the thought of thought.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

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As you are now so once were we.

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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

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

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