People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEI care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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