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Life is too short to read a bad book.

James Joyce

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Death Life Philosophy True
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
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Fantasy Fiction
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Funny
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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Cold Enough Yourself
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Forever Ruin Time
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
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Battle Inspirational Mindset
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Desire Love World
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Glasses Wipe Yourself
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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Existence Human Language Oneself
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
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Future Mindset Past
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
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Charm Lose Make Up Woman

Life is too short to read a bad book.

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