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‘He must picture saint or hero, or hillside, as he sees them, not as he is expected to see them, and he must comfort himself, when others cry out against what he has seen, by remembering that no two men are alike, and that there is no “excellent beauty without strangeness.”’

— Ireland and the Arts

‘It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. 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.’

— The Dead, Dubliners

‘“A Shéadna,” arsa ’n sagart, “ceapaim go dtuigim an sgeul fé dheire. Tuigtear ad’ aigne dhuit go ndéanfá éagcóir ar Mháire Ghearra, dá bpósfá í. Táir ag diúltadh do’n éagcóir sin ar son an chirt. Táir ag gabháil de chosaibh ad’ chroídhe féin ar son an tSlánuightheóra—”’

— Séadna

— Ireland and the Arts

— The Dead, Dubliners

— Séadna

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