People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEHe found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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