People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEChildren must be educated by love, not punishment.
More James Joyce Quotes
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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