I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Let my country die for me.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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 jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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