I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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