There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Places remember events.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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