There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCEThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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