I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCEThere is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Let my country die for me.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Love loves to love love.
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