The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
JAMES JOYCETo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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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 heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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