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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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after 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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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 supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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