I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Love loves to love love.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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