History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEWhite pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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