Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCEBury 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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