In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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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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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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