A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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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.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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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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