An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEEvery 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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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