A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
JAMES JOYCELife is too short to read a bad book.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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