Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCEJesus 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Places remember events.
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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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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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