He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEEvery life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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 no friends like the old friends.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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