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.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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