Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEShakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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