All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
JAMES JOYCEAll Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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