I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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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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