To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCEO, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
More James Joyce Quotes
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Places remember events.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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