Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCEJesus 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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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Let my country die for me.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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