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.
JAMES JOYCEBury 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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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