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.
JAMES JOYCEI 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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 battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Places remember events.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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