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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Discover Genius Life Man Mistake Spiritual
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Hypocrite People
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Inspirational Respect
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
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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Eyes Heart Love Mad
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Future Mindset Past
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
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
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Change Faith Light Soul
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Men Mind Understand
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Heaven Science Stars
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Laughter Life Love Thinking
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Children Education Love Punishment
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Flower People
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Dream History Truth

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