While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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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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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Let my country die for me.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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