People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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