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.
JAMES JOYCELife is too short to read a bad book.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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