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Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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