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 JOYCEThe heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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