His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Let my country die for me.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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.
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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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