An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCETime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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