O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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