An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEShut your eyes and see.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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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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