An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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