Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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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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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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