History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEWhile you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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His 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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Let my country die for me.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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