To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Places remember events.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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