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Does nobody understand?

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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

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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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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

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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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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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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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