Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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Places remember events.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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 jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Love loves to love love.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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