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 JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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