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.
JAMES JOYCEI 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Love loves to love love.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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