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Quotes from The Aran Islands — John Millington Synge

d. 1909 Ireland

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The Aran Islands (1907)

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

The Aran Islands (1907)

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

The Aran Islands (1907)

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