In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Love loves to love love.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of 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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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