Jesus 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.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Love loves to love love.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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While 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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