And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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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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