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.
JAMES JOYCEAbsence, the highest form of presence.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Love loves to love love.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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