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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCE

Cold Enough Yourself
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Future Past Philosophy Present
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
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
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Rise
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
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
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Funny Lying
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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Age Glory Passion World
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Fools Herself Name
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Funny
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCE

Hypocrite People
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Love Mad
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
JAMES JOYCE

Death Life Philosophy True
Love loves to love love.
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Funny Life Love One Liner
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCE

Men Mind Understand

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