There’s no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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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 Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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