To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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