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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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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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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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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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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 object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

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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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In the particular is contained the universal.

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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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