He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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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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