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Life is too short to read a bad book.

James Joyce

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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Ourselves Writing
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Art Born History Pain Philosophy Vision
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Artist Beautiful Creation
God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Devil Food God Human
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Atheist Philosophy Religion
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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Adventure Home Reality Reflection
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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Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Heart Love Romantic
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Life Love
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Inspirational Respect
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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Argument Forever Way Writing
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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