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 JOYCEO, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
More James Joyce Quotes
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCE