There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Let my country die for me.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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