Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCEBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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