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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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

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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

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

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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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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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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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

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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

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