What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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.
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Places remember events.
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