People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCETime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Let my country die for me.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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