Book of life Quotes by Sebastian Barry

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“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Prussian, German, Austrian, Turkish – and Canadian, Australian, American, Zulu, Gurkha, Cossack, and all the rest –…

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“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”

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And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

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“The knives opened the flesh like they were painting paintings of a new country, sheer plains of dark land, with the red rivers bursting…

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“I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish…

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“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They…

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“Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise”

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“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers…

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“I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum…

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“No one says too much and what is said is only light-hearted and bantering because we want to preserve our advantage over fear. Fear…

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“They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies.”

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“There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like…

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