There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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Shut your eyes and see.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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