Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Places remember events.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Let my country die for me.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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