I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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Places remember events.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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.
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Love loves to love love.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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