He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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