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Tenors get women by the score.

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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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Too excited to be genuinely happy
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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
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