The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Places remember events.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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