All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Places remember events.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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