Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Places remember events.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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