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 JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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