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.
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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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