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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce

I’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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Argument Forever Way Writing
God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Devil Food God Human
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Escape Home Inspirational Life Run
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Emotion Instagram Captions Proud
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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Eyes Heart Love Mad
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Laughter Life Love Thinking
Let my country die for me.
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Country Death Myself One Liner
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Atheist Philosophy Religion
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
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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Hypocrite People
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
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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Forever Generosity
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
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
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Discover Inspirational One Liner
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Heart Love Romantic
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Future Mindset Past
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Discover Genius Life Man Mistake Spiritual
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Different Order Perfection Word Writing
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Care Live Night
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Greatness Humble Life Teacher
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Himself Possible World
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Age Glory Passion World

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