They lived and laughed and loved and left.
JAMES JOYCEAbsence, the highest form of presence.
More James Joyce Quotes
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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 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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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