I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCELove loves to love love.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE