I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after 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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Let my country die for me.
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