Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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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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Love loves to love love.
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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.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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