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.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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