People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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