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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

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He winged away on a wildgoup's chase across the kathartic ocean and made synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wit's wa...

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind...

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Night, Night. Tellmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of hitherandthithering waters of the Night!

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Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the ...

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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

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I call that a scumhead.

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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

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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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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.

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When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

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The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of ex...

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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