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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.

James Joyce

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
JAMES JOYCE

Charm Lose Make Up Woman
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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Hypocrite People
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
JAMES JOYCE

Myself Space Time
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Men Mind Understand
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Art Life Spring
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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Difficult Men Religion Woman
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Rise
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Ideas Thinking
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Care Live Night
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Emotion One Liner Sentimental
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Himself Possible World
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Atheist Philosophy Religion
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Born Death Different Way
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE

Age Glory Passion World

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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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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