"The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside."
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"British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops."
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"He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life"
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"Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools."
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"Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man."
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"Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!"
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"[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend."
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"Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish."
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"(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People."
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"Time is, time was, but time shall be no more."
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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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"He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense."
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"I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me."
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"When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once."
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"Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life."
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"I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
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"Too excited to be genuinely happy"
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"Love, yes. Word known to all men."
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"A nation is the same people living in the same place."
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"Have read little and understood less."
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