People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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