Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Let my country die for me.
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