One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCEA woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Places remember events.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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Love loves to love love.
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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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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
JAMES JOYCE






