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1 " Life seemed to him a gift; the statement ‘I am alive’ seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain. "
― James Joyce , Stephen Hero
2 " When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is atoo stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered adullard an opportunity to participate in the warmer movement of a morehighly organised life. "
3 " Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good. "
4 " It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. "
5 " A man who swearsbefore the world to love a woman till death part him and her is saneneither in the opinion of the philosopher who understands whatmutability is nor in the opinion of the man of the world whounderstands that it is safer to be a witness than an actor in suchaffairs. A man who swears to do something which it is not in his powerto do is not accounted a sane man. "
6 " The trees do not resent autumn nordoes any exemplary thing in nature resent its limitations. "
