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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

James Joyce

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCE

Desire Love World
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCE

Ourselves Writing
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCE

Fantasy Fiction
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCE

Animal Smile
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
JAMES JOYCE

Different Order Perfection Word Writing
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Love Mad
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 JOYCE

Existence Human Language Oneself
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
JAMES JOYCE

Memories Moments Secret Stars
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE

Fall Light Music
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE

Family Love Mom World
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCE

End Time
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE

Book Life Reading
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCE

Hypocrite People
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCE

Funny
Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCE

Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Ruin Time

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

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