Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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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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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Jesus 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.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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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.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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