To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
More James Joyce Quotes
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Places remember events.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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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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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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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE






