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.
JAMES JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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