I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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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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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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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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