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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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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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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

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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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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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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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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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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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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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

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The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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

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Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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