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«You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.»
Author: James Joyce
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The Kingdom
«I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides of which will now be shown.»
Author: James Joyce
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Asia, Asia Minor, faraway, minor, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, owing, slides, slide down
«I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.»
Author: James Joyce
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Alexander Pope, appropriateness, Colley Cibber, Geoffrey Chaucer, Percy, ribald, Shelley
«Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.»
«Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible beacuse there must be sexual intercourse.»
«And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes»
Author: James Joyce
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like mad
«Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.»
Author: James Joyce
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Sorrow
«Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.»
Author: James Joyce
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Love
«I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short»
«The feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer»
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