Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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 yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Love loves to love love.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE






