Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEHis soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Places remember events.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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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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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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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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