He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEI am proud to be an emotionalist.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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