I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Let my country die for me.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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