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| 'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake | | History | |
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| A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. | | Genius | |
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| A nation is the same people living in the same place. | | Uncategorized | |
| All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. | | Uncategorized | |
| And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical! | | Uncategorized | |
| Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | | Passion | |
| By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react. | | Uncategorized | |
| Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. | | Uncategorized | |
| Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ever looked sufficiently at a quite everyday looking stamped addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its fortune: it exhibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever p | | Uncategorized | |
| Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow. | | Sorrow | |
| He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? | | Uncategorized | |
| Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic. | | Love | |
| I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. | | Belief | |
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| I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short | | Uncategorized | |