Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
JAMES JOYCEBeware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Places remember events.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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 heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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