To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCEA woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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