His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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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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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Love loves to love love.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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