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.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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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 am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Love loves to love love.
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