People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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