Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEWhile 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Places remember events.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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