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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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Shut your eyes and see.

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

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

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Deal with him, Hemingway!

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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

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I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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