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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
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Art Born History Pain Philosophy Vision
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Myself Space Time
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Beautiful Life Simplicity
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Charm Lose Make Up Woman
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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Establishment Inspirational Passion Work
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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Forever Generosity
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Funny
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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Difficult Men Religion Woman
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Glasses Wipe Yourself
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Laughter Life Love Thinking
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Inspirational Learning Mistake
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Funny Lying
There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Friendship Old
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Himself Possible World
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Balance Happiness Hunt Lost Mind
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Dream History Truth
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Children Education Love Punishment
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Humor Silence
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Artist Beautiful Creation
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Desire Love World

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