Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.