White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
JAMES JOYCEEvery jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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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.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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Places remember events.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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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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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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