Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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’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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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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