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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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Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

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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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Too excited to be genuinely happy

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What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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