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 JOYCEO, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
More James Joyce Quotes
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Let my country die for me.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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