I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCEAsk no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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