It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCEThought is the thought of thought.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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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.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Love loves to love love.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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