And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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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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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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