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 JOYCEHis heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Places remember events.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Let my country die for me.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Love loves to love love.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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