The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
JAMES JOYCEThe pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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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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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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