His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCEA woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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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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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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