Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCEAsk no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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