While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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