It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCEI 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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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Places remember events.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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