He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEAll Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
JAMES JOYCE