I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Places remember events.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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