I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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Shut your eyes and see.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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