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

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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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Love, yes. Word known to all men.

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

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In the particular is contained the universal.

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I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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Life is the great teacher.

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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

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