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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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Thought is the thought of thought.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

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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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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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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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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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