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.
JAMES JOYCEEvery 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
-
-
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.
JAMES JOYCE -
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE -
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCE -
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
JAMES JOYCE -
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE -
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
JAMES JOYCE -
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE -
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 JOYCE -
In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE -
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCE -
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE -
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
JAMES JOYCE -
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCE -
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCE -
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE






