Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCETime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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