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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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

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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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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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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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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

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