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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCE

Cold Enough Yourself
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE

Escape Home Inspirational Life Run
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE

Inspirational Learning Mistake
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCE

Civilization Creation
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE

Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Existence Human Language Oneself
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Difficult Men Religion Woman
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCE

Funny
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE

Atheist Philosophy Religion
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCE

Fantasy Fiction
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Experience Life Race Reality Soul Time
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCE

Generosity Inspirational
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE

Himself Possible World
We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCE

Sympathy Togetherness

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