They lived and laughed and loved and left.
JAMES JOYCEI’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
JAMES JOYCE