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.
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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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’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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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