"It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish."
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."
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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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"Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin."
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"He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?"
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"The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness."
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"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."
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"Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub."
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"Always see a fellows weak point in his wife."
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"I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation."
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"If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple."
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"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
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"The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue."
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"Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character."
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"O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?"
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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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"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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"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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"Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear."
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