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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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

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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Redheaded women buck like goats.

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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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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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

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

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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.

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