Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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