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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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“Love loves to love love.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#3
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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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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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#5
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#6
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#7
“Let my country die for me.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#8
“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#9
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#10
“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#11
“Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs VErschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Mrs Norman W. Tupper loves officer Taylor. You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody.”
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James Joyce,
Ulysses
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#12
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
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Jack Kerouac
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#13
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
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Jack Kerouac
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#14
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
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Jack Kerouac,
The Dharma Bums
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#15
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”
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Jack Kerouac,
The Dharma Bums
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#16
“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”
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Jack Kerouac,
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
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#17
“A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights
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#18
“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights
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#19
“Psychology claims that when you can't sleep at night, you are actually awake in someone's dream.”
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Anonymous,
Las mil y una noches: Antología
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love
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#20
“If you need a hug, give it to someone else.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights
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#21
“Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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#22
“eager to see such a wonderful thing,”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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#23
“much is gained by patience,”
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Andrew Lang,
The Arabian Nights
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#24
“We live in biological time, and we have beginnings, middles, and ends.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
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#25
“It is amazing what women in love will do”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights
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#26
“So Scheherazade began.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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#27
“the more one has, the more one wants.”
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Anonymous,
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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#28
“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
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Leo Tolstoy,
Война и мир
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confidence
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#29
“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
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Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace
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morals
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#30
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
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Pablo Neruda,
100 Love Sonnets
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