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““four o’clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He””

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“Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.”

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“occurred to him that he was sick of being Quirke, but knew there was no one else he could be. “I”

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“Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.”

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“We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.”

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“She could see and smell and touch and hear, but somehow she could hardly feel at”

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“Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round.”

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“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish…

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“the past wastes no time becoming the past, all right.”

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“Phoebe lay rigid, staring into the darkness. It was often like this; she would go to sleep and then after an hour or two…

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“But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop”

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“There’s always somebody,” she said simply.”

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“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

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