And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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