And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEAll Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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