O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Places remember events.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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