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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what ...

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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Irish Fairy Tales

He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...

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James Stephens (author)

Novelist

Born: 1882-02-09

Died: 1950-12-26

James Stephens (9 February 1880 – 26 December 1950) was an Irish novelist, broadcaster and poet, now best known for his fantasy novel The Crock of Gold. James Joyce thought so highly of him he considered asking him to complete Finnegans Wake.More