Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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