O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCEThere is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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