"Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good."
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"I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life."
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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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"(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop."
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
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"That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia."
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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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"Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them."
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"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. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."
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"if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness."
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"The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious."
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"If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one."
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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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"Wipe your glosses with what you know."
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"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."
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"I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come."
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"First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race."
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"Signatures of all things I am here to read."
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"He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone."
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"There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human."
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