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

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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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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In the particular is contained the universal.

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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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