History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Places remember events.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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