All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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 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.
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Places remember events.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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 pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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