And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEI am proud to be an emotionalist.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Places remember events.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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