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.
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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Let my country die for me.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Places remember events.
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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