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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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James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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There is not past, no future everything flows in an eternal present.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
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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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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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