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.
JAMES JOYCEBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Love loves to love love.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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