History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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