Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCE