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— Hugh MacLennan"Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity."
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What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.
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