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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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

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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

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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. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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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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Thought is the thought of thought.

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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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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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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.

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I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

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As you are now so once were we.

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