And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
JAMES JOYCEPlaces remember events.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Places remember events.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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