Irish - Novelist | February 24, 1852 - January 21, 1933
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George A. Moore
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.
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Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
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The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
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