While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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