Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCEChildren must be educated by love, not punishment.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Every 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.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Places remember events.
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