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My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
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She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
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Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)
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The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book - or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it.
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Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27)
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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The sly reeds whisper to the nightA name - her name -
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
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A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.
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And mine a shielded heart for herWho gathers simples of the moon.
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Quoint a quincidence! O.K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
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