I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCEIt is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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 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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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