“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”

“wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.”

“They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.”

“I have the worst kind of history—a non history. I wasn’t born poor, oppressed, rich, famous, or any other such extreme. I was born in the middle, and I desperately want to hide it.”

“The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.”