I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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