In the particular is contained the universal.
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 Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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