And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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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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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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