Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCEEvery 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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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