Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCEShakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Let my country die for me.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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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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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.
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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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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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