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 JOYCEThere’s no friends like the old friends.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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