His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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