He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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