And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE






