There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCEWe are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Places remember events.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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.
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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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