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.
JAMES JOYCEHis heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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