O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCEIt is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
More James Joyce Quotes
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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