Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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