To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCEI’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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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