Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“All have become so nervous and so cold
That each man hates the cause and distant words
Which brought him here, more terribly than bullets.”
"Two Armies"
The Still Centre (1939)
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“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”

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Notes on Language and Style (1929)

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“There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.”

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