The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCEYour battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Places remember events.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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