In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
More James Joyce Quotes
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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