Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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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.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Places remember events.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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