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.
JAMES JOYCETime is, time was, but time shall be no more.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Places remember events.
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Let my country die for me.
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