I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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