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> [I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/i-wanted-impossible-things-i-wanted-my-life-with-her-before-it-all/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

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## More by Philip O Ceallaigh

> [In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/in-the-middle-of-this-it-was-good-to-have-some-moments-in-which/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

> [I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/i-was-very-far-away-my-real-life-had-gone-underground-and-could-not/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

> [But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/but-you-learn-to-smother-the-living-breathing-soul-go-deaf-to-it-and/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

> [Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/everybody-likes-to-see-the-loner-hitched-it-tells-them-everything-is/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

> [I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/i-wanted-impossible-things-i-wanted-my-life-with-her-before-it-all/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

> [All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-o-ceallaigh/all-a-person-does-in-a-moment-of-suffering-is-to-suffer-there-is-not/)

[Philip O Ceallaigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-o-ceallaigh/)

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