There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
JAMES JOYCETime is, time was, but time shall be no more.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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