To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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’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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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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