Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCEYour battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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Places remember events.
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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.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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