The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEI am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Let my country die for me.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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