Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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