Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCECivilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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