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.
JAMES JOYCEYour mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Let my country die for me.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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