The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEThought is the thought of thought.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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