Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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