I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCEIt is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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 soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Love loves to love love.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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