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.
JAMES JOYCEAll things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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