And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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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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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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