Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCETime is, time was, but time shall be no more.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Every 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.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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