One 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.
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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Love loves to love love.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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 pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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