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.
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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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