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As you are now so once were we.

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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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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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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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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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Wipe your glosses with what you know.
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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
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