Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Let my country die for me.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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