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.
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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