Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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