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• When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
• We are minor in everything but our passions.
• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
• Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
• If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

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