We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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 desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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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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Let my country die for me.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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 JOYCE