Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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 care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE