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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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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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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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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

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Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

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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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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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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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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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Have read little and understood less.

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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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