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John Millington Synge quotes

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

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It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

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