Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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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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