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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Joyce

What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Ourselves Writing
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Forever Future Past Philosophy Present
There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Friendship Old
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Difficult Men Religion Woman
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Care Live Night
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Eyes Heart Love Mad
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Fools Herself Name
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Existence Human Language Oneself
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Beautiful Life Simplicity
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Life Love
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Escape Home Inspirational Life Run
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Battle Inspirational Mindset
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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Adventure Home Reality Reflection
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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