He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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