Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Places remember events.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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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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Love loves to love love.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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 care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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