The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCEAll things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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