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.
JAMES JOYCEA man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Love loves to love love.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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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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