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.
JAMES JOYCEEvery jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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 not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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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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