And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEAsk no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE