I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCEWhile you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
More James Joyce Quotes
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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