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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.

James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCE

Cold Enough Yourself
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Adventure Home Reality Reflection
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCE

Artist Beautiful Creation
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
JAMES JOYCE

Difficult Men Religion Woman
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCE

Inspirational Respect
Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCE

Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
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 JOYCE

Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCE

Art Born History Pain Philosophy Vision
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE

Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Emotion One Liner Sentimental
We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCE

Sympathy Togetherness
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCE

Battle Inspirational Mindset
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE

Book Life Reading
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Future Past Philosophy Present
Shut your eyes and see.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes One Liner See

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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