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.
JAMES JOYCEChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Let my country die for me.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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