I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCETime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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