Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCEI am proud to be an emotionalist.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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’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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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