I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of 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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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