James Joyce - Life Quotes

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In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep.

James Joyce