Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Love loves to love love.
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Places remember events.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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