History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEI am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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