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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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

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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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

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Have read little and understood less.

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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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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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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

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

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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

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