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.
JAMES JOYCEBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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