Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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