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.
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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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