Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Love loves to love love.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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