Shut your eyes and see.
JAMES JOYCEAsk no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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