History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEHis 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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