Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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