James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

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But oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

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The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…

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I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.

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Frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of them all sides like the end of Loves old sweeeetsonnnng the poor men that have to be out all the night from their wives and families in those roasting engines

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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