In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
More James Joyce Quotes
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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 am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCE