The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
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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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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