His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCEI am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
More James Joyce Quotes
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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