Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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