Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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