Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
JAMES JOYCEShut your eyes and see.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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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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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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