Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEI desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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