Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEThought is the thought of thought.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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