History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEBeware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Love loves to love love.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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