His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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