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I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. Hozier

Love Death You Eyes Experience Yourself Wonderful Sense Gone Everything Way Kind See About Through Falling Falling In Love Die Wonderful Way Being Being In Love Moment Found Believed Watch

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce

Women Men Emotion Governed Lines Intellect Curves

A nation is the same people living in the same place. James Joyce

Patriotism People Nation Living Same Place

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on. Katie Taylor

Positive Moving On Good Good Job Job Staying Just Moving

Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right. Malachy McCourt

Day You Every Day Live Every One Day Going Your Right Last

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith

Law Men Rich Rule Poor

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde

Tired Women Men Marry Both Disappointed Because Curious

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde

Only Shallow Refuge Seriousness

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde

Nothing Excess Like Moderation Succeeds Thing Fatal

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride. Samantha Mumba

Time Great Ride Big Roller Coaster Not Knowing Some Having Like Great Time Knowing Roller Just Happening Next Coaster Ridiculous

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy. Samantha Power

Empathy Exercise Advocacy Core

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett

Love Me You Love Me Shall Love You Loved

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. Thomas Moore

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. Victoria Smurfit

Family You Matter Find Saint Patrick's Day Go Irish Where

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. William Butler Yeats

Joy Will Triumph Obstacles Overcomes Knows Labours Which

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats

Dreams You Softly Because Tread

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. Brendan Behan

Seen Situation Worse Never Policeman Make Dismal

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Brendan Behan

Respect Wonderful Cynical Everybody Everything Rather Irish Lack

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Behan

Success Alone Man Our Dream More Prospect Most Without Terrors Cherished His Than Achieved Achieving Deprived Who

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. C. S. Lewis

Work Faith Me Dangerous Debate Own Nothing Seems Unreal More Doctrine Than Just Public Successfully Defended

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. C. S. Lewis

Easier Bore See Go Pray Pray For Than Much

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. Conor McGregor

Life Politics Time News Game Sports Care My Life Matters Nothing Fighting Think Other Else About Study Sport Am dont Care Anything Anything Else Watch Need

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke

Our Nerves He Sharpens Antagonist Us Skill Helper Strengthens

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