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.
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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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