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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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

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As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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...rapid motion through space elates one.

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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

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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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