All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
JAMES JOYCEWelcome, 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Places remember events.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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