All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
JAMES JOYCEI’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Love loves to love love.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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