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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.

James Joyce

Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
Shut your eyes and see.
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Eyes One Liner See
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Forever Future Past Philosophy Present
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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Establishment Inspirational Passion Work
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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Death Life Philosophy True
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Cold Enough Yourself
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Artist Beautiful Creation
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Truth Word
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
Places remember events.
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One Liner Place Remember
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Flower People
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Charm Lose Make Up Woman
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Children Education Love Punishment
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Desire Love World

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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