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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

James Joyce

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.
JAMES JOYCE

Adventure Home Reality Reflection
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Discover Inspirational One Liner
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Beautiful Life Simplicity
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Heaven Science Stars
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Life Love
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Balance Happiness Hunt Lost Mind
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
Let my country die for me.
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Country Death Myself One Liner
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
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
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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Establishment Inspirational Passion Work
We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Sympathy Togetherness
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Change Faith Light Soul
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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Experience Life Race Reality Soul Time
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Art Life Spring
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Rise
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
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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Existence Human Language Oneself
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Emotion One Liner Sentimental
You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Death Shine Sun Yourself
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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End Time
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Fantasy Fiction
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Funny Lying
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Dream History Truth
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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Difficult Men Religion Woman

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