All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Places remember events.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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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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Let my country die for me.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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