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.
JAMES JOYCEThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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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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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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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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