It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCEPeople could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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