Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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