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.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Places remember events.
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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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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.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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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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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.
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