Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEO, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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