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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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

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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

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Love loves to love love.

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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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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

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