One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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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 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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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