Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEAbsence, the highest form of presence.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Let my country die for me.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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