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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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Gasballs spinning about, crossing each other, passing. Same old dingdong always. Gas, then solid, then world, then cold, then dead shell drifting around, frozen rock like that pineapple rock. The moon.

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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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

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He faced about and, standing between the awnings, held out his right arm at arm's length toward the sun. Wanted to try that often. Yes; completely. The tip of his little finger blotted out the sun's disc. Must be the focus where the rays cross.

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I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he hasn't got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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Born: February 2, 1882
Died: January 13, 1941 (aged 58)
Bio: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century.
Known for:
  1. Ulysses (1922)
  2. Dubliners (1914)
  3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
  4. Finnegans Wake (1939)
  5. The Dead (1914)
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