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.
JAMES JOYCETo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Places remember events.
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