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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
JAMES JOYCE

Argument Forever Way Writing
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCE

Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Experience Life Race Reality Soul Time
Love loves to love love.
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Funny Life Love One Liner
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCE

Future Mindset Past
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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Adventure Home Reality Reflection
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Forever Ruin Time
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Rise
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Flower People
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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Cold Enough Yourself
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
JAMES JOYCE

Death End Himself Live Soul
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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Hypocrite People
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Emotion One Liner Sentimental
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Difficult Men Religion Woman

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