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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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His 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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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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