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.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Places remember events.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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