While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it…

James Joyce
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. ✨ James Joyce (2016). FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition): Experimental Novel and Play from the Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Chamber Music, p.574, e-artnow
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