An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEHis 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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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