History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEHe found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Let my country die for me.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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