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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.

James Joyce

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Fools Herself Name
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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End Time
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Dream History Truth
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
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Civilization Creation
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
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
Shut your eyes and see.
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Eyes One Liner See
Places remember events.
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One Liner Place Remember
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Himself Possible World
Let my country die for me.
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Country Death Myself One Liner
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Generosity Inspirational
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Emotion One Liner Sentimental
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
Thought is the thought of thought.
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Deep One Liner Thinking
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Myself Space Time
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Glasses Wipe Yourself
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Life Love
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
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Humor Silence
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Desire Love World
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Laughter Life Love Thinking
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Animal Smile

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