His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
JAMES JOYCEHis soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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