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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Joyce

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
JAMES JOYCE

Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
Shut your eyes and see.
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Eyes One Liner See
Places remember events.
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One Liner Place Remember
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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Cold Enough Yourself
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
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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Ourselves Writing
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Fools Herself Name
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Heaven Science Stars
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Care Live Night
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
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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Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Eyes Heart Love Mad
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Age Glory Passion World
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Atheist Philosophy Religion
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Myself Space Time

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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