Thought is the thought of thought.
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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Let my country die for me.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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