Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of 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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