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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

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If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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

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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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