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To be sure, there was a doomed romance in the notion of republican failure, a poetry in those archetypes of futility. But Gerry Adams was not a romantic.
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“I don't see myself very clearly.
Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.”
― The Night Listener
Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.”
― The Night Listener
“However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.”
― The Power
― The Power
“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
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