Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCEShakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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