We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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