We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCETo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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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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Love loves to love love.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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