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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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?
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Cold Enough Yourself
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
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Inspirational Respect
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
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Flower People
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
In the particular is contained the universal.
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Philosophy Space
Places remember events.
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One Liner Place Remember
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.
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Death Life Philosophy True
Let my country die for me.
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Country Death Myself One Liner
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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Argument Forever Way Writing
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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Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Fall Success
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
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
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Future Mindset Past

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