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“God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.”

James Stephens

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“Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself. In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself. It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for…

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“The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.”

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A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

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“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.”

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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

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