I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCEThe pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Places remember events.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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