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" If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. "
James Joyce
Must
Become
She
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" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "
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" The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
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" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "
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" Nations have their ego, just like individuals. "
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" The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. "
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" Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. "
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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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" When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. "
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Dublin
" I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. "
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" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "
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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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" My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. "
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Mind
Her
" There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. "
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Philosophy
Human Being
" Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. "
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" You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. "
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Forget
Heaven
" 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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Day
Future
" 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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Over
Immortality
Only
" Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. "
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" God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear. "
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" Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. "
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Satan
" Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. "
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Me
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Man
Intelligence
" I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. "
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Child
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" He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. "
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