Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCEChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Places remember events.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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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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