In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s no friends like the old friends.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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