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.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of 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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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