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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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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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Life is the great teacher.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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Have read little and understood less.

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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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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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

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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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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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