In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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