To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Shut your eyes and see.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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