Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Let my country die for me.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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