"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis."
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"Shut your eyes and see."
"Absence, the highest form of presence."
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
"Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."