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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Love, yes. Word known to all men.
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As you are now so once were we.
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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.
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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
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Deal with him, Hemingway!
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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There's no police like Holmes.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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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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