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.
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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Let my country die for me.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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