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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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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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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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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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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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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

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Too excited to be genuinely happy

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First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

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