Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEI desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
More James Joyce Quotes
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Let my country die for me.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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