One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCEHe found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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