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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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Places remember events.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Let my country die for me.
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