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.
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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE