You can still die when the sun is shining.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I’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.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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