Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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