It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCEI 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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