Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
JAMES JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Let my country die for me.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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