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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"
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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."
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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."
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"When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy of poppies.But when it came right down to it, the sink of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at."
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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
Publicity
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
Money
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Death
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
Irish
"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
Love
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
Day
"I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds."
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