Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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