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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Change Faith Light Soul
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Heaven Science Stars
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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Existence Human Language Oneself
You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Death Shine Sun Yourself
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Ourselves Writing
Shut your eyes and see.
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Eyes One Liner See
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
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Glasses Wipe Yourself
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
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Eyes Heart Love Mad
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
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
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Heart Love Romantic
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Himself Possible World

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