“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”

“Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

“When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”

“Be just before you are generous.”

“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”

“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”

“Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.”

“What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.”

“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”

“Every bond is a bond to sorrow.”

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

“Thought is the thought of thought.”

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”