People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s many a true word spoken in jest.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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A man’s errors are his 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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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