Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCE
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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’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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE