Places remember events.
JAMES JOYCEI am proud to be an emotionalist.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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.
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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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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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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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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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His 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.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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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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