People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCEA man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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