An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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