In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEI 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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