Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCECivilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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