Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Let my country die for me.
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Places remember events.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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