Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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