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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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